Simile & Metaphor

Northrop Frye 2 (2013, 3.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The poet, however, uses these two crude,
     primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and
     metaphor) in the most uninhibited way,
     because his job is not to describe nature,
     but to show you a world completely absorbed
     and possessed by the human mind.

        Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

Rooted in Love

Tree 3 (2013, 2.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Although much of our life is rooted in the anxiety of our time, 
in other words the fear of death, the continuity of knowledge 
and wisdom that has brought us here together is rooted in love, 
the love that is not only as strong as death, but able to cast out 
its fear. 

Northrop Frye

Imagination

RIC_1900-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then,
     is to produce out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the
     society we want to live in.

       Northrop Frye

Bearing witness

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

If I have one duty in these times,

it is to bear witness.

Etty Hillesum

Apocalype

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared.

Northrop Frye, The Great Code