Because if you only want something to operate on the literal level, you might as well write an essay.
No, that's not right, that's flippant of me and I apologise.
Consider Blake's "Tyger". We may read that literally, as an address to a tiger, and it works perfectly well. However, we can tell by the expansive nature of some of the word choices that the poet is inviting us to look at it from another angle, that there is definitely something else going on.
No, that's not right, that's flippant of me and I apologise.
Consider Blake's "Tyger". We may read that literally, as an address to a tiger, and it works perfectly well. However, we can tell by the expansive nature of some of the word choices that the poet is inviting us to look at it from another angle, that there is definitely something else going on.
It could be worse