I was glad to get this right, because I really made my best effort to break it down/translate it. Also, predicting the answer before reading the choices really helps a lot with NA questions. I have been out of school for 10+ years, and only recently began studying for the LSAT like a month ago (which I am doing full time pretty much) but am noticing lots of improvement since I started doing this (with tons of practice) - Hope this helps someone!

📌 Conclusion: The meaning of a poem is NOT just whatever the author wants it to be.

ℹ️ Premise: Sometimes readers of a poem find it meaningful in ways the author did not intend/expect.

⚠️ Assumes that:

🔎 readers can interpret a work of poetry to mean something beyond what the author meant for it. That's what makes it art/"beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

➖ Negated AC:

a) Different readers will NOT usually disagree about what the author of a particular poem intends to communicate by means of that poem.

(Readers usually agree on the meaning of a poem.) ❌

b) If someone writes a great poem, they DON'T intend the poem to express one primary idea.

(Authors of great poems don't intend for them to have one particular meaning.) ❌

c) Readers WILL agree about the meaning of a poem if they DO agree about what the author of the poem intended the poem to mean.

(If readers agree on why they think a poem was written, they will agree on its meaning.) ❌

d) NO one reading a great poem can discern every idea that the author intended to express in the poem.

(No one can discern the intended meaning of a poem.) ❌

e) If a reader believes that a poem expresses a particular idea, then that idea is NOT part of the meaning of the poem.

(Poems don't mean whatever you think they mean) ✅

ℹ️ This is the NA: it's saying that the meaning of a poem is whatever you get out of it. This closely resembles the assumption I predicted above. The nature of poetry is such that it is not meant to be taken literally, and therefore open to interpretation

STOP CHANGING YOUR ANSWER you are ALWAYS right the 1st time!!!!!!!!! ughhhh

Greetings! My name is Lex, I'm a non-trad from the Silicon Valley and planning to take the November LSAT for the first time. I lost my decade long cybersecurity job 2 years ago while in a coma, following a fire that left me disabled (and nearly un-alived).

After wasting the last year applying to literally thousands of jobs, having countless dead end interviews, and otherwise doing everything to find a new job - I realized my skills are quickly becoming obsolete and need to go back to school one way or another.

I've always dreamt of being a lawyer and making a positive difference in the lives of others. So here I am, turning 35 next month, and shooting for a 170+ for a chance to attend USF, USC, Stanford, UCLA, USD, Hastings, SCU, Davis, Berkeley, Pepperdine or Irvine. UGPA is 3.1 so I know its quite the ambitious goal, but hey "you miss 100% of the shots you never take"!

Greetings! My name is Lex, I'm a non-trad from the Silicon Valley and planning to take the November LSAT for the first time. I lost my decade long cybersecurity job 2 years ago while in a coma, following a fire that left me disabled (and nearly un-alived).

After wasting the last year applying to literally thousands of jobs, having countless dead end interviews, and otherwise doing everything to find a new job - I realized my skills are quickly becoming obsolete and need to go back to school one way or another.

I've always dreamt of being a lawyer and making a positive difference in the lives of others. So here I am, turning 35 next month, and shooting for a 170+ for a chance to attend USF, USC, Stanford, UCLA, USD, Hastings, SCU, Davis, Berkeley, Pepperdine or Irvine. UGPA is 3.1 so I know its quite the ambitious goal, but hey "you miss 100% of the shots you never take"!

i need to learn to trust my gut because initially i was correct - most of the time when i'm not 100% sure and I change my answer, it turns out that I was right originally 😤

the only reason i got this right was because i predicted the answer. B and D also sounded correct and I was torn between the answers before I just decided to go with the one I predicted. I'm learning to trust my gut cuz every time (most of the time) I change my answer I was right originally.