I would put it differently: the fact that there is something new in yourself allows you to see the classic differently when you reread it.
With a really rich text, we don't see everything about it on the first reading, and part of the reason for that can sometimes be that we're not in the right place -- haven't matured enough, haven't learned enough. "The older we get the farther we see", as the song has it. I know that there are books and poems I struggled with when I was younger that I can really appreciate now, and others that I enjoyed at the time, but can now appreciate on multiple levels.
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Date: 2008-05-15 05:30 pm (UTC)With a really rich text, we don't see everything about it on the first reading, and part of the reason for that can sometimes be that we're not in the right place -- haven't matured enough, haven't learned enough. "The older we get the farther we see", as the song has it. I know that there are books and poems I struggled with when I was younger that I can really appreciate now, and others that I enjoyed at the time, but can now appreciate on multiple levels.