Edward Vijay Xavier The Educated Imagination The author Northrop Frye has spent 25 years teaching and

studying English is speaking to a receptive audience of students. Initially assuring them that answer to some of the simplest questions are difficult and that his answers to some question good or not have been structured after considerable thought. He then goes on to explain the relationship of English as a mother tongue to literature. By actually suggesting the motive for metaphor is literature and how literature is relevant in the work of today. By suggesting tries to make the audience distinguish the three states of the mind by inviting them to imagine they are shipwrecked on an uninhabited south sea island. A person can be exposed to a certain medium and enjoy this medium as a whole, but does not have an opinion of what is actually being presented to them. The first thing one would do is look at the world around as an objective world and not find anything in common as a human with it. But yet because the human is intellegent and curious and would like to study it and sees whether it is beautiful, austere or terrible. He encourages us to ask question however simple they might be so intellect and emotion can come together. This level of the mind is of consciousness and awareness. This is the speculative and contemplative level, where art and science begin and dont stay together very long. Science is accurate where emotion is unreasonable. The shipwrecked human soon decides this is not part of him and something that he does not want. He would like to live in a human world. The intellectual and emotional states must combine to produce valid methods of altering or embracing aspects of life that appeal or disturb us. The shipwrecked human then begins to build a shelter for himself picturing the outcome. Thus moving into a different level, no longer of subject and object but what he has to do and what he wants to do, in other words necessity and freedom. After this the author adds another shipwrecked human of opposite sex for comfort and an eventual family and society. This society will now go about transforming the island and engineering it to human needs also refer to as the human form of nature. This is the area where art stops and science begins or vice versa. The language at this level is the level of practical sense, words of action and movement. The human adapts and transforms at this level. A level and where consciousness and practical sense come together. He has a vision or model in his mind that he wants to construct, comparing what he does with what he can do, imaging and constructing by human experiences. To understand and create idea's there has to be a basic level of experience with emotion and intellectual idea's " In practically everything we do it's the combination of emotion and intellect we call imagination that goes to work." this is why a child does not understand certain emotional concepts and words; this lack of knowledge and experience translates into a detachment from reality. An educated adult although will use this imagination to their benefit.

It is this level of imagination which produces the literary of literary language of poems plays and novels. The author goes on to say, science is seeing and proving where as, art is the world is constructed and not seen. To construct the human has to draw all his experiences, working almost as science on a hunch and common sense. The authors comparison of literature with science is constant and he highlights the differences by saying, Science is progressive and literature is not. He compliments the classics saying that the classics of yesterday are the classics of today. Shakespeare King Lear remains King Lear and Oedipus Rex is Oedipus Rex both dramas remain models of dramatic writing. The author then critically suggests that nobody in todays world would turn to a poet for advice on leadership. The author then raises the all important question, is it possible that literature especially poetry, is something that the scientific civilization of ours will eventually out grow. He then tries to make an honest effort to convince the audience that literature and poetry is relevant today. He makes two points, one Literature belongs to the world man constructs and the world of literature is of human shape and love, passion, death and joy. The other point is when art and science begin the creative and neurotic mind both dissatisfy what then see. They pretend that it is there or make it be there. The motif for metaphor is literature because in descriptive writing associative language is used. The poet does not describe nature but shows you a world completely absorbed and possed by the human mind