Cathedral-sight to the otherwise literary blind

The main idea of looking and seeking in "Cathedral" is one that when I read I thought applies to the overall idea of what is literature? We discussed what we thought literature was at the beginning of the semester and a lot of people listed authors and books and popular and classic stories, and I mentioned that I thought it could be anything, so long as it fulfills some need. A grocery list, a reciept, an agenda, they each have their own personal meaning (see more on this in my previous post) this is what it means to seek and not just look. When you look at something you see it as it exists, when you seek it, you look into it, and what it's existance means. This is a difficult concept to understand for some, but I think it potentially could also help others who don't understand some poetry or have difficulty understanding it.  When you seek the true meaning of the poem, then you understand it, the thing is, the meaning is not concrete to everyone it provides something new, it fulfills new needs, this is what makes it literature, and this is the difference between looking and seeking. When looking at a poem, you see it as lines, sometimes words that don't make sense, maybe they don't belong together. However, when you seek a poem, you seek to understand it, to look into it's eyes and know it's soul, and what it holds and hopes to provide to it's reader, and when you seek it you recieve this new sense, this new outlook and the poem is revealed to the reader, and you gain a connection with it, a new sight, you see, instead of look.