Assignment 2: The Creature that is Literature

"The literary writer isn't giving information, either about a subject or about his state of mind: he's trying to let something take on its own form, whether it's a poem or play or novel or whatever...The writer of literature can only write out what takes shape in his mind." (p. 24)

Here Frye makes an interesting revelation in regards to the origin and manner in which literature is created. He personifies literature, describing it as a creature that is brought about from the visionary's own mind. It exudes into life, at times unexpectedly, taking the writer by surprise. When you set out to write, it is impossible to plan exactly what you are going to write-you can have the initial notion, but that idea is nurtured, refined and aggrandized on its own accord. It is almost as if literature is an art; in small segments it is random, but in totality and as a unit it is precisely sculpted. Unlike in science, their is a profusion of answers that each make total sense and that take on their "own form" as they are developed. In fact as I have written my above comments, it feels as if everything just fit together like a puzzle..