I remember a friend telling me their English teacher took them on a field trip to see the Poet Simon Armitage and asked him what the poem “the hitcher” represents and he just said “it’s just about some bloke” - or something to that effect. Anyway it made me chuckle to imagine the dismay of the English teachers in the room
Eh, Death of the Author is a thing for a reason–we don’t have to take authors’ thoughts as the end of discussion about a thing. Richard Adams is quoted as saying he didn’t put any meaning into Watership Down, and they were just tales for his daughters. Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 was mostly about people becoming isolated in society and watching too much TV rather than censorship.
I remember a friend telling me their English teacher took them on a field trip to see the Poet Simon Armitage and asked him what the poem “the hitcher” represents and he just said “it’s just about some bloke” - or something to that effect. Anyway it made me chuckle to imagine the dismay of the English teachers in the room
Eh, Death of the Author is a thing for a reason–we don’t have to take authors’ thoughts as the end of discussion about a thing. Richard Adams is quoted as saying he didn’t put any meaning into Watership Down, and they were just tales for his daughters. Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 was mostly about people becoming isolated in society and watching too much TV rather than censorship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author