Poetry for everyone!

‚Die Jugend ist glücklich, weil sie die Fähigkeit hat, Schönheit zu sehen. Jeder, der die Fähigkeit behält, Schönheit zu sehen, wird niemals alt.‘ (Franz Kafka)

What is a metaphor and what is a motif? What do the images in texts or the aphorisms in songs tell us? What is topic and what does it have to do with deconstruction?

You will find answers to all these questions here, without being able to answer them.
This blog is about reading as practice. I don’t want to talk about methodology (you can Google it) so much as let it speak for itself through application. You will see and understand what method is.
I make the theory visible by obviously working with the texts here.
So there are no summaries here, and I don’t tell you what the text is about – I show you.
We try to take a new look at pop culture to see how much poetics it is still capable of.
Meanwhile, we remain textual and oriented towards the work. We interpret the song lyrics inherently (individually) or intertextually (with reference to other lyrics by the same artist); perhaps with a view to the music. So we first detach the text from its socio-historical imprint as well as from its author – we are not initially concerned with what the author wanted to say with it, but what the text says to us.
We make it easy for ourselves, we work with texts we like, written by people who are role models for us or whose concerts we attend. Whose advice we listen to and whose songs we sing.
So we try to understand the beauty in what we find beautiful anyway.

By the way, with this ability we can open up any text, no matter how difficult it is. So we acquire a technique that frees us almost completely from a teaching system. We think for ourselves and can test and reassure ourselves simply by working on the text.
Text indexing is a key competence if we want to understand the world. It is not a competence that will necessarily make you rich – but one that can open up any knowledge independently. We thus become our own teacher. After all, when it comes to free science, it should always be about imparting competence to all.

Long live freedom!