A little bit more...

Good morning everybody!  Today is our first test. Good luck to all.

I just want to mention a couple of things that we missed that might be on the test.

1. Too much repetition becomes comic
2. Treason of the clerks.  (The act of letting religion or politics reign as the final measure of a culture or canon in literature). (That is my own translation)
3. The poet is called POESIS (the maker)
4. If a book depresses you... you know that something is wrong...
5. Aristotle believed that the poet represented a significant human ACTION.
6. Definition of rhapsodic
7. Low Mimetic comedy: Boy wants girl. Shakespeare tried all variations of this.
   
8. Five phases of symbols
   Literal- motif
   Descriptive- sign
   Formal- image
   Archetypal- myth
   Anagogical- monad
   
   

    9. Pg. 116- Parallelism between grids. 

• Literal meaning has to do with thematic irony.  Poetry is an ironic structure.  
  
• We are in Descriptive phase. Symbolism-low mimetic.  Ex: What does the author mean? Today, literature tricks us into thinking that literature is a transparent glass that we see through to see our world. (Sexson)New Critics-Formal phase- high mimetic.  
  
• Archetypal (patterns)-romance (Frye's favorite). Stories are in conversation with other stories.
• Anagogical-mythic. 

Click here for an interesting powerpoint on Frye's seasons