Fryen' On Emerald Lake

Yesterday around eleven o'clock would find me sitting on the bank of Emerald Lake with my dog Bo by my side and Words With Power in my hands. I started reading the chapter entitled Identity and Metaphor and I was intrigued by his notions in regards to writing and reading. As far as I understand it Frye was looking at the relationships that exist between the reader and the text. Arguing that the writer unlike a painter, "must use the same words that everyone else does" it can complicated to, through poetry, get at the meaning you want all to experience. He writes, "The inference is that there may be something potentially unlimited of infinite in the response to poetry" He goes on to make this idea even more complex arguing, "What we 'see' when we try to comprehend the totality of a literary structure is a large number of juxtaposed images." In regards to the Bible I think these two ideas are inherent throughout given that we all try to get different meanings from the same words. And even when we do get a similar idea we have numerous different ideas we can relate it to. So what is a writer to say, is nothing concrete and static, does is world of literature a never ending cross reference? Probably