My final thoughts on Fish

I am still in the process of reading the literary theories of Fish.  I enjoyed his book “Is there a text in this class?”  I found the textbook challenging.  I also found out about Milton.  I had never read Milton and have started to read Paradise Lost.  I was never a fan of poetry since I didn’t think I understood it.  After reading Fish and Rosenblatt I have a better appreciation of poetry since they both state that meaning is more than what the critics say it is.  It is an activity and more of what the reader gets out of the text.  What does this mean?  What does this text do?   How can I relate to it?  I will leave the questions about who came to the window in L’Allegro to the critics to discuss and I will read and enjoy the poem even though I have my own ideas about who came the window.  For me who came to the window is not important to get meaning from the poem.