The question is, are they the only conveyors of meaning? I for one prefer a song’s associations as triggers of meaning even if the lyrics mean differently (assuming I can even understand the song’s language or if even there are lyrics at all).
Well one thing’s for sure, your analysis of the song you mentioned is far from what I’d call simple.
Yes but even the style of critique is in itself up for criticism.
Yes but that doesn’t mean there’s no line to be drawn as to how much meaning we can read into something. Sometimes a song about spiders is really simply a song about spiders.
Posts, about what I think, are simply posts about what I think.
They are ever open to critique.
quote: Lost Wanderer
Yes but that doesn’t mean there’s no line to be drawn as to how much meaning we can read into something
Each reviewer of my work is free to accept or to reject my thought
on it’s merits - or lack of same. No one has the authority to draw any such ‘line.’
There is no infallible Ministry of Meaning - to endow observations with a
Ministry
imprimatur. No one person can exhaust the meaning presented
by various phenomena. I bring my own life story with me, when seeking meaning.
This is one reason why a person may say: “This has great meaning for me.”
quote: Lost Wanderer
The question is, are they the only conveyors of meaning? I for one prefer a song’s associations as triggers of meaning even if the lyrics mean differently (assuming I can even understand the song’s language or if even there are lyrics at all).
Good point! There is a type of floor cleaner that has great meaning for me.
They used same in the convent where I resided for a brief period of time,
over 40 years ago.
That this particular cleaner aroma has meaning for me, is understandable.
That this cleaner aroma may have no meaning to anyone else is also understandable.
An instance of: “I bring my own life story with me, when seeking meaning.”
Apparently, my nose goes with me on the search as well.
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