Q&A: Do art and literature professors overinterpret other people’s work?

by the_scaremongers

Question by Jason: Do art and literature professors overinterpret other people's work?

I have a literature professor that picks apart poems and gets all kinds of hidden meanings out of them.

Can there be that much meaning in one poem? I noticed art teachers do this, too.

How do they know if that is what the artist meant? Maybe they were painting a picture because it looked good, maybe they weren't trying to make some in depth political statement.




Best answer:

Answer by Katya
I very honestly think so. I've seen teachers do that.
Being a writer, I look at my work and have others look at it, and they see more depth in it than I do!
It's crazy!

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