Knowlege of Intent

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you post." - Margaret Atwood

I take this to be a point of the benefit of being a thorough and knowledgeable reader. As you learn the manner through which one should read, you gain a better understanding of the author's intent. As you learn to look for additional implication and meaning in alternate areas of the literature in question, you begin to appreciate it in the manner truly intended. You can only appreciate a piece as you understand it, to understand it you must learn the proper "questions" to hold in mind. By doing this you are, of a sort, asking the literature questions through which you can understand it to the capacity originally was intended.