The reader is supposed to come to share the author's concern. Since the form of the piece is integral to its and your construction of meaning, determining which metaphor best captures the structure of a particular artistic essay can help you see how you are expected to read it. Some artistic writing is open-ended, some more didactic. If a particular lesson is being imparted, ask yourself how well suited the artistic style is to that lesson. If the argument or analysis is somewhat open-ended, ask yourself how the artistic approach informs and shapes your response to the argument or analysis.
Artistic writing is cohesive rather than fragmentary.
Unlike transgressive writing, which deliberately interrupts and problematizes coherence, artistic writing has a definite shape. Readers should have a sense of how things hang together and why the author has put things in one place rather than another. In your own writing, be prepared to reorganize sections if they don't make sense and to eliminate sections that detract from or confuse the coherence of the piece. It might specifically intertwine two themes, play variations on a theme, or juxtapose two or three voices. Development Artistic scholarship relies on a certain richness and vividness to bring readers into the readerly experience.