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I we're all overthinking things a little bit. It sounds like people are feeling intimidated. People think that literature is about words like New Criticism, postmodernism, structuralism, and that it's out of most people's reach.

In reality, literary analysis isn't that hard. For example, let's look at a literary analysis question that I asked recently: Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in “The Road Not Taken”. This literary analysis question was very easy to ask. I just found a part of the poem where its meaning was unclear, and just asked a question about it.

Answering literary analysis questions shouldn't be that hard either. For the purposes of this site, all literary analysis should involve is looking at a story, putting it in its societal/historic context, and then determining possible meanings of that text. The answers to What is Jack's crown? do a pretty good job of this -- three possible meanings are presented in three answers. The fact that questions can have more than one answer can be confusing, but that's why literary analysis is interesting in the first place!

Although experts would be nice, we don't necessarily need them to have interesting (but admittedly not expert-level) discussions about literary analysis. What we do need is interest in asking and answering these questions. Is there interest in these questions? If there is interest, then we should all make a collective effort to ask and attempt to answer these types of questions.

If you want to learn more about literary analysis, I've started collecting freely available links on my blog. Some people on chat have found them helpful.

I we're all overthinking things a little bit. It sounds like people are feeling intimidated. People think that literature is about words like New Criticism, postmodernism, structuralism, and that it's out of most people's reach.

In reality, literary analysis isn't that hard. For example, let's look at a literary analysis question that I asked recently: Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in “The Road Not Taken”. This literary analysis question was very easy to ask. I just found a part of the poem where its meaning was unclear, and just asked a question about it.

Answering literary analysis questions shouldn't be that hard either. For the purposes of this site, all literary analysis should involve is looking at a story, putting it in its societal/historic context, and then determining possible meanings of that text. The answers to What is Jack's crown? do a pretty good job of this -- three possible meanings are presented in three answers. The fact that questions can have more than one answer can be confusing, but that's why literary analysis is interesting in the first place!

Although experts would be nice, we don't necessarily need them to have interesting (but admittedly not expert-level) discussions about literary analysis. What we do need is interest in asking and answering these questions. Is there interest in these questions? If there is interest, then we should all make a collective effort to ask and attempt to answer these types of questions.

If you want to learn more about literary analysis, I've started collecting freely available links on my blog. Some people on chat have found them helpful.

I we're all overthinking things a little bit. It sounds like people are feeling intimidated. People think that literature is about words like New Criticism, postmodernism, structuralism, and that it's out of most people's reach.

In reality, literary analysis isn't that hard. For example, let's look at a literary analysis question that I asked recently: Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in “The Road Not Taken”. This literary analysis question was very easy to ask. I just found a part of the poem where its meaning was unclear, and just asked a question about it.

Answering literary analysis questions shouldn't be that hard either. For the purposes of this site, all literary analysis should involve is looking at a story, putting it in its societal/historic context, and then determining possible meanings of that text. The answers to What is Jack's crown? do a pretty good job of this -- three possible meanings are presented in three answers. The fact that questions can have more than one answer can be confusing, but that's why literary analysis is interesting in the first place!

Although experts would be nice, we don't necessarily need them to have interesting (but admittedly not expert-level) discussions about literary analysis. What we do need is interest in asking and answering these questions. Is there interest in these questions? If there is interest, then we should all make a collective effort to ask and attempt to answer these types of questions.

I we're all overthinking things a little bit. It sounds like people are feeling intimidated. People think that literature is about words like New Criticism, postmodernism, structuralism, and that it's out of most people's reach.

In reality, literary analysis isn't that hard. For example, let's look at a literary analysis question that I asked recently: Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in “The Road Not Taken”. This literary analysis question was very easy to ask. I just found a part of the poem where its meaning was unclear, and just asked a question about it.

Answering literary analysis questions shouldn't be that hard either. For the purposes of this site, all literary analysis should involve is looking at a story, putting it in its societal/historic context, and then determining possible meanings of that text. The answers to What is Jack's crown? do a pretty good job of this -- three possible meanings are presented in three answers. The fact that questions can have more than one answer can be confusing, but that's why literary analysis is interesting in the first place!

Although experts would be nice, we don't necessarily need them to have interesting (but admittedly not expert-level) discussions about literary analysis. What we do need is interest in asking and answering these questions. Is there interest in these questions? If there is interest, then we should all make a collective effort to ask and attempt to answer these types of questions.

If you want to learn more about literary analysis, I've started collecting freely available links on my blog. Some people on chat have found them helpful.

I we're all overthinking things a little bit. It sounds like people are feeling intimidated. People think that literature is about words like New Criticism, postmodernism, structuralism, and that it's out of most people's reach.

In reality, literary analysis isn't that hard. For example, let's look at a literary analysis question that I asked recently: Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in “The Road Not Taken”. This literary analysis question was very easy to ask. I just found a part of the poem where its meaning was unclear, and just asked a question about it.

Answering literary analysis questions shouldn't be that hard either. For the purposes of this site, all literary analysis should involve is looking at a story, putting it in its societal/historic context, and then determining possible meanings of that text. The answers to What is Jack's crown? do a pretty good job of this -- three possible meanings are presented in three answers. The fact that questions can have more than one answer can be confusing, but that's why literary analysis is interesting in the first place!

Although experts would be nice, we don't necessarily need them to have good discussions about literary analysis. What we do need is interest in asking and answering these questions. Is there interest in these questions?

I we're all overthinking things a little bit. It sounds like people are feeling intimidated. People think that literature is about words like New Criticism, postmodernism, structuralism, and that it's out of most people's reach.

In reality, literary analysis isn't that hard. For example, let's look at a literary analysis question that I asked recently: Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in “The Road Not Taken”. This literary analysis question was very easy to ask. I just found a part of the poem where its meaning was unclear, and just asked a question about it.

Answering literary analysis questions shouldn't be that hard either. For the purposes of this site, all literary analysis should involve is looking at a story, putting it in its societal/historic context, and then determining possible meanings of that text. The answers to What is Jack's crown? do a pretty good job of this -- three possible meanings are presented in three answers. The fact that questions can have more than one answer can be confusing, but that's why literary analysis is interesting in the first place!

Although experts would be nice, we don't necessarily need them to have interesting (but admittedly not expert-level) discussions about literary analysis. What we do need is interest in asking and answering these questions. Is there interest in these questions? If there is interest, then we should all make a collective effort to ask and attempt to answer these types of questions.