Text analyzation opening it's doors to me

Chapter seven is all about properly analyzing text. I found the first passage about Hotel California quite interesting because before i read the analyzation of the song I never really thought about what the song actually meant. I always thought of the song as praising California but I now know it says it can be a great place and a bad place at the same time. I didn't really know what was being asked of me when asked to analyze text. The part of this chapter that helped me the most was where it said read, respond, summarize, analyze, and draw conclusions. This gave me a good basis of what to do when asked to analyze a text.

Textual analysis. This section starts off with Denise Noe comparing and contrasting country and rap music. She makes several good points. She talks about how they are similar, which before I read this, I thought there was no way they were. She talks about Hank Williams Jr.'s song where he talks about hunting women. I never realized country subliminally talked about things like this. This is not a good thing to sing about but it does compare the two genres in a way. One of the passages confused me. Peter Stiglin analyzes some paintings and I didn't really get what he was trying to say. I sort of understood that he was saying we do not actually stop and appreciate what nature has to offer in terms of its beauty but sentence by sentence I was lost.

Regardless of understanding these passages or not I think I now have at least a little bit better understanding of how to analyze text.