| Popis: |
The direction of argument is from the word "forests" to the support it is said to provide for a particular interpretation. The rhetoric of critical argument, as it is usually conducted in our journals, depends upon a distinction between interpretations on the one hand and the textual and contextual facts that will either support or disconfirm them on the other; but as the example of Blake's "Tyger" shows, text, context, and interpretation all emerge together, as a consequence of a gesture that is irreducibly interpretive. In the years since 1964 other interpretations of the poem have been put forward, and they follow a predictable course. Any interpretation could be elaborated by someone in command of those procedures (someone who knows what "will do" as a literary argument), even the author's own "absurd" reading of "The Tyger" as an allegory of the digestive processes. |
