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 Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:51 am
It's up to the reader if the item symbolizes something that they known. We cannot read the author's mind. (Unless, you're the author.) 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:13 am
I haven't begun high school English classes yet (I will in a few days, though), so I haven't had to find symbolism anywhere.
Unless it's practically jumping out of the book at me (The Chronicles of Narnia, etc.), I either just won't notice or won't pay attention.
I read the story for the story. Symbolism is for when I have nothing else to think about.
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:23 am
I like to look for foreshadowing. I like to try and guess what is going to happen next. Something I noticed alot of characters that talk about death in large amounts, die.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:17 pm
You have no idea how much I agree with you on that one.
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:38 am
It depend on what you mean with symbolism there many book that have somthing that is symbolic in them but it not allways that sea stands for blablabla and boy stands for blablabla but most writer writes at least in some way about themselves that means that allmost everything is symbolic but maybe not allways so deap.
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:05 pm
Lord of the FLies made me hate symbolism... i don't give a flying rats arse about that ******** conch!!! evil evil stressed stressed burning_eyes
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:43 am
I am personally under the impression that symbolism in a book is a ton of B.S. No writer sits down for hours and thinks "Now how can I put a symbol that some English teacher might look for in future readings?" I mean seriously? If you ask me, someone powerful just had waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands one day and noticed something vague in a book, now we of the future must suffer the consequences.
poets, however are another matter. Since their work doesnt have to be nearly as long I think they have time to stuff their work with all sorts of symbolic-nothings. I personally despise Emily Dicans for doing this on a regular basis, her and her christian poems brought me nothing but grief in my freshman English class.
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:38 pm
I always took it that symbolism was something you didn't have to strive for. Whatever you do it is subconsciously put in whatever you do. Every action and nuance in a piece of prose. Obviously its the point of poetry.
If your main characters male or female, its because you had a particular feeling that that gender would mean something different than the other in the story. If your setting looks like your home or the complete opposite. Everything is on purpose but at the same time subconscious.
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:56 am
In our english class, we were reading The Poisonwood Bible. Our teacher was making everything have this great, deep meaning to it. It got to a point where we all began saying, well, that doesn't necessarily have to have meaning. She became rather upset with us. I suppose one would have to speak with the author to know their intentions.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:56 pm
It's just a bunch of kids on a darn island! gonk
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:10 pm
My take on symbolism is that even if the author didn't intentionally put it in, I like to look for it and it adds to the already pleasurable expierience of reading a book
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:21 pm
I will never understand why people say Shakespeare had symbolism.
It was sad
It was funny
It's over.
The end.
He was much too busy of a man to think about things like that.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:36 pm
Personally I think that symbolism is something that the author doesn't intentionally put in, but the reader percieves it to make the book or story more enjoyable... *shrugs*
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:37 am
X-rainbowglow-X Lord of the FLies made me hate symbolism... i don't give a flying rats arse about that ******** conch!!! evil evil stressed stressed burning_eyes I also just read for the story. I don't care what it means, I just want to get completely lost in a different life, darn it! scream
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:20 pm
Most stories can be read without focusing on the symbolism within. Some stories have deeply rooted, intentional symbolism. Others have symbolism on the surface that the author neither noticed nor intended.
Below those stories, are those where literate readers begin looking to frequent color choices, minor settings to interpret a book to their own liking or dislike.
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