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Originally Posted by wizwor
The only reason kids are not reading and analyzing Harry Potter and Stephen King is because the teachers would have to read and analyze Harry Potter and Stephen King.
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I'd take the opposite tack- literary analysis is horrible. Poetic analysis is worse.
When you do "literary analysis" or "poetic analysis," what you're doing is akin to torturers in a concentration camp vivisecting political or ethnic refugees. You don't gain anything from it, and it destroys your enjoyment of it. All you do is satisfy your overseers that you've tortured and destroyed enough victims to get a better posting at a college.