7. Where or how does ambiguity come into play in a reader's experience? How might ambiguity work
within a piece of literature (or art of any kind?) How does it impact our understanding, and appreciation of a text?
Ambiguity does play an important role while reading and writing because it leaves different interpretations open for the reader to sift through. It lets them be able to enrich their reading and writing abilities because of their open interpretation, letting them have possibilities that are endless. Having ambiguity gives the reader a more in-depth advantage as they read literature, as it lets them produce different points of views and it lets them, in a sense, be biased about what they think as they are open to all the possibilities. Ambiguity, in a sense, is the open-mindedness that a human holds, where someone is open to more than one interpretation of literary text that can change the outcome of how they understand the said text. To sum that up, they are open-minded to what something may mean and the overall meaning that an author is trying to pull through within their work. For example, music. While the song writer may mean one thing, the listener may take the song to a personal level and relate it to their everyday life. Last year in psychology, our last project was to create a list of 10 songs that we feel that described us, and while picking out my playlist I realized that how I take a song would be different than how others would take them. For example, there is a song called “This is Home," by a singer named Cavetown. The song itself is written by a trans singer/songwriter, and he is overall speaking about his insecurities (like his hair being a mess, having to hide his chest, while also dealing with depression, ect.) My own meaning of the song is different, as I take his lyrics to be about not being comfortable in my own skin and wanting to get myself out of this state of mind. As a listener, my meaning is different from his meaning though I can personally see all the different interpretations that his music holds, which leaves me with a different insight about the song (and all songs in general.)
I agree that ambiguity allows for each reader to have his/her individual interpretation of a story. While not all readers will understand the author’s message, if they derived something else from the story it had the same value. All forms of art require ambiguity to be truly appreciated. If you only observe works on the surface level, you midi expierincing the most of what the work has to offer.
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