NF Symbols ch.

I am taking NF quotes that interest me and clear things up for me.

"We can hardly even say that it represents a part of the authors intention in putting it there, for the author's intention ceases to exist as a separate factor as soon as he has finished revising."

This, again, supports Frye's claim that poems are born, not made.  He says that the revision act makes the text its own entity. 

Clarifying points for me from NF:

1.  "verbal structures may be classified according to whether the final direction of meaning is outward or inward.  In descriptive or assertive writing the final direction is outward." (Descriptive)
2. "Verbal elements understood inwardly, or centripetally, as parts of a verbal structure, are, as symbols, simply and literally verbal elements, or units of a verbal structure."  (Literal)

Frye's definition of tautology: A purely verbal structure that cannot come out of itself.

"Wherever we have an autonomous verbal structure of this kind, we have literature.  Wherever this autonomous structure is lacking, we have language, words used instrumentally to help human consciousness do or understand something else." 

Autonomy

1: the quality or state of being self-governing ; especially : the right of self-government

2: self-directing freedom and especially moral independence3: a self-governing state
This is interesting to me, as it is a scientific hypothesis on philosophy of good or bad in language.  I would like argue that some people may function in the literary sense that Frye is suggesting only exists in literature.  But that would mean that the words we use are fluid, with-out meaning at all.  I could say to my daughter, "don't run in front of that semi-truck." And she could hear, "I want to give you a red balloon,"based off of the book we read the night before about a semi-truck carrying red balloons, leading a parade with children running after it.  
"the self-contained verbal pattern, is the field of the responses connected with pleasure, beauty, and interest."