1. An idea that strike my interest from chapter 4:language, meaning and interpretation is how culler explains and describes the tree dimensions of ‘meaning’ in literature. This was significant to me because in the text culler stated that there are three different levels of meaning are the meaning of a word, utterance and text. I agree with this because I believe that in literature a text can have many different perspectives and meanings. It also has an effect on the reader and the text can make the reader think about what he/she read. I think this idea jumps out at me because I really think literature is like an artwork where it express things in a lot of ways and can affect the reader into questioning himself what the text really means.
2. A poem that I thought uses one of the techniques culler describes in chapter 5 is Emily Dickinson’s poetry titled “The brain is wider than the sky”. In this poem I found that she uses  figures of speech. Emily uses metaphor in this poem to describe and compare how the brain is wider than the sky. This technique jumps out to be important to b=me because this helps for the reader in his mind create images and questions to analyze of what the texts means and what the author is trying to express or say through their writing. It helps shape the meaning of the poem because the text is trying to tell you that the brain can be powerful and think of things that are out of this world.

In the section titled “The nature of literature” from chapter 2 of “what is Literature, and Does it matter?” by Jonathan Culler, in this section of the chapter Culler defines “literature” from several angles. The angle I found most interesting is “literature as aesthetic object”.  In this angle Cullen is basically telling us that Literature is made with a purpose to construct a reading that has different phases and emotions that will work together throughout the reading to have an end. The artistic part of literature is  the ending itself. It’s a pleasure when making literature or occasioned the writing itself. For a text to be consider as literature the text as a whole has to contribute into creating an effect, emotion or art in the reader’s mind. But it doesn’t have a purpose to inform the reader about anything or convince the reader about anything and it’s not meant to accomplish anything in the reader. Literature is made as something to entertain the reader. It has a purposiveness and a writing or story has to be tellable and have qualities that make them a good story. Also it’s not attached to external purpose. This is what makes a story aesthetic for the reader and listener. It is something that will amuse them and cause an effect in them think a something worth reading or listening. I found this angle interesting because it explains how or when a text or writing can be considered as literature as well as how literature can be an aesthetic object that readers and listeners can consume. I also found this interesting because I think literature can be an art of work and cause   readers or listeners  and it’ s mostly used in fiction stories where it has a variety of qualities to amuse the reader.