you are so right! I mean, we all have to analize literature and all that in class. but hey, I bet that the author just wrote, he didn't give a damn about its meaning. I mean, when you write something, you don't really think about what secret meanings your readers will find. I think it's just stupid. I like reading, but not sitting in class and discussing this kind of things.

HAHA!

That is absolutely HILARIOUS and true.

You must have put a lot of thought into those random letters and numbers ... I mean, even if the guy Max didn't, the fact that the students thought of that "deeper meaning" in the poem was great.

Fantastic concept.

I love analyzing poetry, books and lyrics in English. I wish our teacher would do it more often. I really just like it so much because there is no wrong or right, everyone has a seperate opinion. Usually people relate writing to their own life experiences, so it's also interesting to see what some people come up with.

Anyways, excellent writing.

Sara

This was great. I hate analyzing literature. Thing are made to be read, not pored over for three hours in an attempt to understand some deep meaning.

It reminds me of a Beatles song... when a fan wrote to John Lennon saying his teacher was getting the class to analyze Beatles songs, Lennon wrote "I Am the Walrus," based on everything from drug trips to children's rhymes to police sirens. He was also heard muttering, "Let's see the f*ckers figure this one out!" That story, and this one, put a smile on my face.

lmao xD This is so great! I absolutely loved it!

This is just like how people love things that are complex. If you make something that is supposabley deep and meaningful despite the fact that it looks like random letters people think you're a genius and amazing.

Every one thinks I'm smart and amazing because I'm an enigma.
In reality I drool over my math homework every night.

Thank you for proving an obvious truth!

I really like the concept you've used for this. Reminds me of a study on poetry I had to read way back in eighth grade. And I'm not kidding when I say that one of the 'poems' I had to try and get meaning out of was just a list of ingredients from the back of a box of cereal! You've definitely struck a chord of truth with how some people like to over analyze poetry, of course half the time that's simply the beauty of it. Anything can be said using generalizations and it will still somehow apply! Nice work!

HA! so true. but with poetry, it really only matters what the reader thinks. funny thing, this could actually be valid, you know? completely stupid, but if SOMEONE say's it's poetry (even if the author denies it), that's just what it becomes.

So true! It just ** me off how sometimes people try to pull a deeper meaning out of something thats not there and over anaylsis the heck outta a piece of writing/picture/etc. I swear, I need to show this to my English teacher.

excellent!

This is EXACTLY what I've been thinking for...for YEARS. My dad told me a story about an artist who was commissioned (sorry, sp?) to build a statue of a mother with a baby. He ended up sending a piece of tool to the gallery, instead. All the people started wondering what it meant, what the shapes meant...all that. Then the artist showed up and apologized for sending them a piece of tool. He brought the real satue with himself. Man...that was embarrasing...for all those people, not the artins. It's a true story.

Then one poet, who is very apprciated (we do his poems in our class and ALWAYS have to think of what they say and stuff...) was asked what his poems meant. His interviewer brought up this theory about it...all wide and philosophical. Then the poet said, "It means nothing...it's just something I write when I'm completely smashed. It's utter gibberish." The poet really liked to drink. He himself said that peole give too much meaning into poems.

Just wanted to tell that to someone, haha.

Hah! I love satire, and this is just a cut above the rest. Overanalyzation is a weird thing, not really a "problem," but more of something that isn't quite right a lot of the time. My Eng 101 teacher was trying to get us to analyze Robert Frost, and my head nearly exploded.

Thank you for this wonderful piece of satire. It made my day.

-SapphireIris

Haha...that's great. Left a smile on my face after I finished laughing =)

I love the poem. Haha.

Good one.

A radio station in Australia or Britain once did something like this. They just threw a bunch of random sounds together, said it was from a new, radical composer and sent it to critics around the world.
Some liked it. others thought it needed work.
Kind of like your story.

Excellent.