Wednesday, 11 April 2018

Northrop Frye

(1)Archetypal criticism means recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature.Archetypal critics gave them new forms with new references.

2)Frye's attempt to prove physics to nature & criticism to literature by giving an analogy:-
Basically here Frye tried to compare both as according to any physics students they mainly studies or rather learning physics instead of nature. So it can be say that physics has structured meaning or ideas to study of nature. While on the other sode of comparison, we can say that criticism has the same philosophy or rather strategy as it has the particular way of study literature. One can learn criticism of literature but can't learn literature.

3)Criticism as an organized body of knowledge with the idea of literary relationship with history & philosophy:-
Any text has the image of history & philosophy. As one must uses both in his expression by one or another  ultimately we all know that history always referred the connection of past & philosophy has the idea of moral values. So by connecting both one can presents something.so here we can say that like physical structure it has the organized body of knowledge.

(4) This Inductive method towards the archetype is a process of baking up. As we back up from a painting if we want to see composition instead of brushwork. Shakespeare’s Hamlet’s grave – digging scene in which applied inductive method. First of all Hamlet looking at the Yorick scull and then step back Hamlet’s fighting with Laertes because of Ophelia’s death, because Hamlet truly love Ophelia.

(5) Deductive method, it is from general to particular. Some arts move in time, like music; others are presented in space, like painting.  In music we see the rhythm and in painting we see the pattern. But when time passes in music we see the pattern and in painting we see the rhythm. Same thing happen in the literature. For Example – Leibstod. Love and death is common thing in all literature.
 
(6)  ‘‘Autumn Fire.’’

                    In the other gardens
                    And all up the vale,
                   From the autumn bonfires
                   See the smoke trail!

                         Pleasant summer over
                         And all the summer flowers,
                         The red fire blazes,
                       The grey smoke towers.

                Sing a song of seasons!
                Something bright in all!
                Flowers in the summer,
               Fires in the fall!

Analysis of the poem:

                                          ‘‘Autumn Fire’’ in which we applied archetypal criticism as autumn is reflected rather it has symbol of tragedy and at some extended connected with tragedy.

  In the second stanza poet describe summer season. Summer, it has a symbol of the romance. In this poem poet used the words like pleasant and flower. These words related with romantic matter.

  In this poem poet describe two seasons with their symbol but at the end poet describe that all seasons have their own importance. All seasons are necessary in the world. 






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