Moreover, we see that even in these rudimentary responses the reader is paying attention to the images, feelings, attitudes, associations that the words evoke in him. It is true that what looks like a certain amount of reasoning went on in the effort to fix on a kind of "play" that would depend on the sun. Actually, however, the notes indicate that, for example, the feeling for the "play" as metaphoric for the life of mankind, and the "sun" as suggesting the backdrop of space and time against which to view it, seems to have been arrived at, not by reasoning, but by paying attention to qualities of feeling due to such things as tonal variations created by the diction, juxtaposed associations, or literary analogies.Notions of mankind as a whole, war, or astronomical time, were part of the readers' contribution to the "meaning.