I didn't have english literature classes in school, unfortunately. So I feel like I'm a bit stunted when it comes to analyzing a text. I can comprehend texts well; I understand what the writer has written, but I find it hard to glean stuff beneath the surface (for example: identifying metaphors and trying to read between the lines). Even when I do manage to analyze something, I feel like it is very surface-level. How do I train my brain to analyze texts?
I didn't have english literature classes in school, unfortunately. So I feel like I'm a bit stunted when it comes to analyzing a text. I can comprehend texts well; I understand what the writer has written, but I find it hard to glean stuff beneath the surface (for example: identifying metaphors and trying to read between the lines). Even when I do manage to analyze something, I feel like it is very surface-level. How do I train my brain to analyze texts?
And who'd take the place of Virgil as Dantes guide?
I have read a little bit of Beyond good and evil, but I am finding it difficult to understand. Can someone suggest what I should do to make it easier to understand? Or can anyone suggest another book?