Asimilar Aesthetics

The essay given to us in class first starts by saying how a song album titled “Lemonade”’s song lyrics could be viewed as a nicely written essay about the human condition and then goes on to talk about all the different ways writing could be altered and presented in different ways. The central point of the essay is that writing is not a static art form. It’s not just “you learned how to write and now you know everything” because writing constantly changes medium, style, and technique based on what the author wants to happen and what mark they want to leave on the reader. Under these circumstances I do agree with the central point of the essay. This is mainly because throughout history it is apparent that writing as a whole has changed in style, technique, and medium because of current events and what the authors of the time wanted to happen when someone read their work. For instance, if  a person were to read a piece of writing printed in the 1500s and compared it to a piece of writing from today, that person would observe very drastic changes in all of the aforementioned fields in comparing the two works. One of the most prominent would probably be the linguistic style and diction of the two works, considering what is considered “common slang” and word choices change as time passes as well as entire languages (i.e. English and Old English). Another one of the most prominent differences in the two works would probably be technique of the author getting what he/she wants out of the reader (with linguistic changes also comes different ways of persuading and informing). With my knowledge of the history of writing, and these examples as support, I can firmly say the I agree with this article.