Saturday, November 15, 2008

Junior writing.

Literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the
world he sees; to his home, not his environment.
- Northrop Frye

The quote means to me that literature is not restricted to any place or anyone.

"The world man constructs" and "the world he see's" are different concepts. The world man constructs is what man creates for himself to indulge in, it is not reality or the turh of how the world really is. "The world he sees" is the perspective in which a person analyzes life in.

"The world man constructs" and "the world he sees" both require the person to interpet the world differently, as well as build it and see it as what it is.

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