~Anagogy- The Anagogic Phase~ Let's dig in!

Anangogy:
~Wordplay
~a mirror for language
~Mystical interpretation
(*Thanks to Encarta Dictionary)
or is it what Frye calls as "Universal Meaning"

Maybe it is all of these things, maybe it is not- I guess I don't know and unfortunately I have not gotten too in depth with Mr. Northrop Frye to engage myself in a more extensive definition.

The allegorical level is the second level of The Middle Ages. Allegorical in medieval times is "what one believes" (Frye 116).

"In the anagogic phase, literature imitates the total dream of man, and so imitates the thought of a human mind which is at the circumference and not at the center of its reality"
~The point at which things become something else.

Anagogy also presents us with the idea that "nature becomes, not the container, but the thing contained".

Oh wow, now I remember talking about this stuff! Sometimes my mind wanders (more often than I would like), but I have just gotten to the "apocalyptic" definition...for some reason I am very keen on Dr. Sexson's definition of this and I know that I have mentioned in one of my previous blogs also...but just to emphasize its importance or my liking to it:

Apo-- to take away
Calypse-- to remove the veil/ pull back the curtain

Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but a revelation. It is the point at which we move beyond the curtain into what we have not yet known or seen before...it is a moment in which all the lightbulbs one's brain turn on.

With that being said or reiterated, that is my brief concept of anagogy for the time being...