Frye questions

Giants in Time” 1.) What is the difference between imaginary and imaginative? In literature, imaginary means unreal and imaginative means what the writer produces. In the later of the reading Frye referred that “what a man really believes is what his actions show that he believes”, I think writers create stories are to express their feelings toward certain things. They use gods and myths, not because they believe in them but how they want to express …

…Explain what is meant by “literature does not reflect life, nor does it withdraw from it; it swallows it.” I think what Frye was trying to say that literature does not reflect life, but rather life reflects literature. Writers and poets related to current issues and put them into literary work, for example Shakespeare probably had a very dramatic life, and he uses his daily experience and some imagination to created plays revolved around everyone.