This isnt intellectualism.

[Benny1]

This topic reminds me of my lit tests.

They are 100% interpretation multiple choice.

People interpret things differently, but this test gets rid of that. I'm given four choices of what this symbolizes, and none of them are what I think.

You make me feel that you are trying to get us to discuss this "right" interpretation, when interpretation is just that. It's an individual thing, and cannot be tested. Saying there is a right interpretation is saying interpretation is useless. You make it sound like you want us to make a topic about one of those authors and discuss exactly what you do, because you have these "right" interpretations, and are trying to make us all think the same thing. Even a metaphor, which you were talking about, can be taken in different ways. And maybe, if you take it in a different way, it won't be as amazing as you think it is.