Meaning in literature
Take the lines which we earlier treated as literature, a two-line poem by Robert Frost
THE SECRET SITS
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
What is'meaning here? Well, there's a difference between asking about the meaning of a text(the poem as a whole) and the meaning of a word. We can say that dance means to perform a succession of rhythmic and patterned movements, but what does this text mean?