It’s what you read into it
8 min readMar 22, 2022
Appreciating the reader’s role in creating meaning in literary works
In Thomas Hardy’s poem, ‘We sat at the window’, the narrator describes how he and his partner watched the rain on St Swithin’s Day at Bournemouth in July, 1875. With ‘nothing to read, nothing to see …’ for the couple in their room that day, they are ‘irked by the scene’, and