Goodman's Language Of Art Rhetorical Analysis

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People’s perception is both under the influence of the funtion of the object and the experience people feel. In Goodman’s Language of Art, This notion is carried out to be denotation which is to use symbols to convey meanings and experiences. Stein’s book” Tender Buttion” is a great application of the Goodman’s theory. Merleau-Ponty, on the other hand, describes people’s percetual experience. In the passage, he was suggesting interaction of one’s mind and body which leads to one’s unique perception. Both writers emphasizes the overall feeling of ideas spirtually. In Stein’s book, “Tender Buttons”, she was also to use symbols to elaborate diversities of the meaning using symbols. In the object section’s a cup and sugar, “Enthusiastically hurting a clouded yellow bud and saucer, enthusiastically so is the bite in the ribbon” The whole poem have no words that is related to sugar nor cup. Because of its ambiguous but open feeling, people can interpret anyway using their own perception. Yet, the variations of the meanings is the consequence of differnet peception who have different walks of life.When we are little, though we are not concious about the enviroment, we have perceptions. In spite of the fact that the perceptions might be consiered naive but it is our …show more content…

In the passage, the blind man with a stick is a great ilustration of such idea. From my perspective, I would consider the stick to be a thing to support his body, but to the man, it is his life because it is essential for him to have this. Everyone needs differnthings which causes our perspective to be different. For example, workers who work in factories desire a better working enviroment with high ceilings and open windows. However, for investers, they are realistic about the actual benefit and practicity. The high ceilings become squished into compressed space to create more

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