The Historica and Cutural Context

You cannot appreciate a text without pre-reading about the background. Sure, you can understand it, but the onlt way to truly appreciate it is to earn more about it., What was the author going through when he wrote it? Was he in a sate of joy? Grief? What was going on when the text was written? A economic downfall? A war? You could only know if you checked it's background. That''s why to truly appreciate a text, you first need to know it's background.