{"id":18800,"date":"2026-04-27T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=18800"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:55:53","slug":"pr-to-knowledge-the-arts-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pr-to-knowledge-the-arts-7\/","title":{"rendered":"PR to &#8220;Knowledge &amp; the Arts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the <em>Knowledge and the Arts, <\/em>I was able to understand the thoughts and struggles I was experiencing while reading poems during this unit. Art can mean whatever we want it to mean (p.5). From this quote, I realized that I was trying too hard to understand exactly what the artist intended. It also made me realize how a poem&#8217;s meaning can change depending on who the reader is, since we do not all share the same experience and the same perspective. &#8221; What does it mean?&#8221; is the wrong question to ask about a tree (p.6). From this, I learned that it is important to first understand and appreciate an artwork before focusing only on finding its meaning and intentions. I learned that asking the right questions is also very important. \u00a0Judgments of quality are different from judgments of taste (p.8). This quote made me think that not everything we personally like is automatically high quality, and not everything high quality will match our personal taste. It&#8217;s based on personal preference. From this, I realized that this is the same with poetry. If a poem has a different style or unusual use of language, it does not make the poetry low quality. It can still be powerful to some people. Additionally, it made me reflect on how personal experience or aspects can shape the value of poetry. Reading the K<em>nowledge and the Arts<\/em> was challenging. However, it really made me think deeply about art, what value art holds and how art changed during different time periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the Knowledge and the Arts, I was able to understand the thoughts and struggles I was experiencing while reading poems during this unit. Art can mean whatever we want it to mean (p.5). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passion-in-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}