1. Nature in the Interpretation of Poetry
... idea of having infinite interpretations is wrong. This example is exactly what Perrine is arguing throughout his paper, he is disagreeing with the argument that poems have a vast amount of interpretations, which is the exact argument that T.S. Eliot has made in this quote "If it suits you that ... story it is easy to see which one is the better interpretation. This quote is Perrine disagreeing with the idea of having multiple interpretations of poems because it exaggerates the uniqueness and unlikeliness of one of the interpretations. When the I focused on the word poetry I could still ...
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