Two main points that I was left thinking about after reading archetypes of literature dealt with his approach and four causes. His approach is centripetal (in), rather than centrifugal (out). His causes are very much like a series of questions we would get asked in elementary school regarding the plot or characters, except regarding literary criticism.
How does Frye want us to read literature?
Frye discusses "archetypal symbols" as well and I found this to be very interesting. I found some interest in it because I understood what he was getting at, it was familiar. I was very easily to think of many poems in which archetypal symbols were used such as the sun, moon, and natural elements. Frye uses the sea as his example. Archetypal symbols are used in many poems and come to have many different meanings, meanings that the readers, critics and creator give them.
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