PrepTest 57, Section 2, Question 24
Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses contradictory ideas, even if it is a great poem. 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. No one who is writing a great poem intends it to communicate contradictory ideas.
Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses contradictory ideas, even if it is a great poem. 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. No one who is writing a great poem intends it to communicate contradictory ideas.
Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses contradictory ideas, even if it is a great poem. 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. No one who is writing a great poem intends it to communicate contradictory ideas.
Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses contradictory ideas, even if it is a great poem. 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. No one who is writing a great poem intends it to communicate contradictory ideas.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
Different readers will usually disagree about what the author of a particular poem intends to communicate by means of that poem.
If someone writes a great poem, he or she intends the poem to express one primary idea.
Readers will not agree about the meaning of a poem if they do not agree about what the author of the poem intended the poem to mean.
Anyone reading a great poem can discern every idea that the author intended to express in the poem.
If a reader believes that a poem expresses a particular idea, then that idea is part of the meaning of the poem.
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