A Response to Stanly Fish's "How to Recognize a Poem when you See One"
Throughout human history, many have tried to answer a question that lies in the very core of our cultural life, and that is - how do we conceive the world surrounding us through our senses and our minds. What is it that we "do" when we "see" something and recognize it, and how do we give a meaning to that specific thing. Many ideas have examined this matter ever since the birth of man's quest for better understanding of himself and his surroundings. It is especially in poetry and literature that we can examine a fantastic inquiry of that notion, since literature is fundamentally drawn from humans will to express their inner entities and mental conceptions.
We can see an abstraction of that meter in Stanly Fish's article "How to recognize a poem when you see one" .In this article fish is trying to elucidate the process of poetry analyzing, and deal with a question that is in the base of literature interpretation: does a text compels its own recognition? how should a text recognition process be understood? Fish is producing an experiment in which he
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