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What? This is a poem? Ok, time to decode this riddle...
So it looks like a cross... Religious?
Religious names... Ok we got something here.
Rose, vine? Definitely got something going on...
How can a list of authors become a religious poem? Point of view. How you look at something, based on your background. People told that it is a list of authors they need to read see it as that. People told that it is a poem, think that it is a poem (Religious, specifically). So how did they actually see it as a poem?
We see certain things in content that does not contain said certain thing. Example: We tend to see faces in scrambled images, because faces are ingrained in our mind. This class of students see the list as a poem because it is not only what they thought, but what they have been told. They use what they have been taught, what they know, and apply it to what is in front of them. It may not make total sense, but their elder, the teacher, tells them that this is a poem. When someone gets an idea, others go with it, it's a simple follow the leader mentality.
So why is it a poem? I am told so. I see some evidence of religious poem in it, and my peers agree. Why would I go against that? The power of persuasion.
It really is crazy how people are influenced by the "follow the leader" mentality.
ReplyDeleteI don't see this as a bad thing necessarily because the leader here is a teacher (who I assume is respected and qualified). Also, I'm sure there were some students in this class who were lost/confused/skeptical, at least at first. It is always good to question things or have concerns but interpreting a "poem" isn't one of those things I'd worry about in a groupthink context.
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