She simply did an extensive close reading, brought to bear her own experience as the daughter of an Episcopal priest, her classwork in 9th grade studying The Odyysey, and her excellent brain. I don't think so. Give non-academics credit for thinking, too. It's to encourage them to explore, respond to, and develop well-supported theories of their own. Students as well as teachers can find a legitimate meaning in a text if they use rigorous methods to approach it.
Most artists merely respond to the overwhelming dictates of their own art.
What the minority of artists do we are not told. The world is not changed nor are people liberated by incomprehensible phrasing. Yours, Bill Godshalk P.S. Ray Haines suggests that, if only one German would have started to laugh at Hitler during one of his speeches, that one German would have changed history.