Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses

I think it is easier to understand why E) is the correct answer when restructuring the passage as follows:

1) No one who is writing a great poem intends it to communicate contradictory ideas.

2) Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses contradictory ideas, even if it is a great poem.

3) If a reader believes that a poem expresses a particular idea, then that idea is part of the meaning of the poem.

4) So it is wrong to think that the meaning of a poem is whatever the author intends to communicate to the reader by means of the poem.

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Statistics : Posted by oliboy333 • on 30 Dec 2020, 12:15 • Replies 7 • Views 5234

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