{"id":6414,"date":"2009-12-25T04:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?page_id=6414"},"modified":"2009-12-25T04:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:26:50","slug":"frye-doggerel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/frye-doggerel\/","title":{"rendered":"Denham’s Frye Doggerel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

DEAR NORIE:<\/p>\n

\nWhat is this thing\nYou call I Ching<\/em>?\nAnd what's this talk\nOf yarrow stalk?\nAnd trigram K'un?\nAre you a loon?\nIt's quite complex.\nMore so than sex,\nAnd not as fun.\nSo let's not shun\nThat two-backed beast.\nBeats Taoist priest.\nI think that I\nWould rather try\nNot Buddhist Mind\nBut Tantra kind.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
WHY FRYE?<\/p>\n
\nO Northrop Frye, you prophesy,\nAnd sometimes even mystify.\nYou quantify, and qualify,\nAnalogize, identify,\nYour categories multiply,\nYour charts and schemes transmogrify.\nDescending low and soaring high,\nYour quest you always amplify.\nYou seek those myths that underlie\nThe Word, and then you try to pry\nThe metaphoric reason why.\nThe language you revivify\nWith babble (ear) and doodle (eye).\nYour universe? At least four-ply.\nYour rally call? Just unify.\nYour books a world exemplify:\nThe green and golden world of Frye.\nFor that we all to you say \"aye\"!\n\nSigned:\n\nDenham, sometimes\nCalled instead\nBy pseudonym:\nTrebor Mahned.\nWhich you will see\nIf backwards read\nWill spell the name\nOf Norrie's ed.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON READING TERRY EAGLETON’S REVIEW
\nOF FRYE’S LATE NOTEBOOKS<\/em><\/p>\n
\nO Terry, you parry\nWith just a simple scoff.\nBut Terry, be wary\nOf killing Norrie off.\nO Terry, be chary:\nThe dead will rise again,\nAnd Norrie, by gory,\nWill mount above the din.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
FRYIAN, FRYGEAN, OR FRYEAN?<\/p>\n
[This in response to an email query from Glen Gill, subsequently issued to a number of Frygians about the proper adjectival form for “Frye.”  Methought we should spend our time on genuine issues.]<\/p>\n
\nSo what's the adjective for \"Frye\"?\nDo you pronounce your \"g\" as hard?\nDo you, like Gill, just wonder why\nThe \"g\" is sometimes soft as lard?\n\nAt other times it disappears,\nWith triplet vowels aligned in row.\nThe folks must surely have tin ears\nWho say the \"g\" has gotta go.\n\nFor precedent consider \"Styx,\"\nWhose adjective requires a \"g.\"\nFor even Appalachian hicks\n\"Norwegian\" works phonetically.\n\nBut why restrict phonetic rule\nTo followers of Norrie Frye?\nDoes not the pedant, simple fool,\nInduce, then universify?\n\nThus, \"Frygean\" applies to texts,\nTo arguments and archetypes,\nTo all the Spirit\/Word contexts.\nThe lightest and the darkest types.\n\nBut I will quiz the linguist Kris\n(My daughter): she may know the rule\nTo cure our ignorance of bliss\nAnd send us back to suffix school.\n\nMeanwhile, methinks that Glen R. Gill\nShould forego adjectives for Jung\nAnd Freud and Frye, and just fulfill\nWhat Norrie craved—a simple tongue.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
FAST, FASTER. FASTEST<\/p>\n
\nThe letters will get done at last\n(If not encased in plaster cast),\nWhen you dispose of Jay's \"Four Ages\"\nAnd cut one-hundred-forty pages,\nAnd then dispatch the Aretino:\nYou'll faster move than andantino.\n<\/pre>\n
[In response to Margaret Burgess’s e-mail about her edition of The Selected Letters of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp<\/em>: “Unfortunately, the letters aren’t moving at the moment. I had 140 pages still to cut and was playing with the scanning of images with my new OmniPage Pro 12 before Christmas (a definite improvement over the Pro 10), but got tied up with other things over the holidays and am now working on Jay Macpherson’s Four Ages<\/em> at the Centre and a manuscript on Aretino for the press, so have been fairly distracted.”]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
THE ST. HILDA’S GIRLS REVEL
\nIN PRINCIPAL KIRKWOOD’S COUNSEL*<\/span><\/p>\n
“[N]ow for something that will penetrate the St. Hilda’s girls who want intercourse with me” (Northrop Frye, 1949 Diary, par. 302).<\/em><\/p>\n
\nO brazen night and saucy day—\nWe are advised by Mossie May\nTo ask the gentlemen perforce\nTo Hilda's for some intercourse.\nBenignly she for us condones\nThe life of mossless rolling stones.\nOur love's as great as Queen Matilda's:\nWe ache to give ourselves at Hilda's.\n<\/pre>\n
*<\/span>[Frye had been asked to get a talk at St. Hilda’s College, University of Toronto.  The source of his joke is that Mossie May Kirkwood [that was her real name], the principal of St. Hilda’s, was fond of the word “intercourse” for social relations.  She once asked the Canadian artist A.Y. Jackson, e.g., how many years it had been since he had had intercourse with the girls at St. Hilda’s.]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
UPON LEARNING FROM FRYE’S MANUSCRIPTS
\nTHAT THE NICKNAMES FOR VIOLA PRATT
\n(MRS. E.J. PRATT) AND VIOLA LOVE
\n(MRS. CHRISTOPHER LOVE) WERE, RESPECTIVELY,
\nVI AND VO<\/p>\n
\nWhen Mrs. Pratt greets Mrs. Love,\nThey do not say \"Hi Ho.\"\nThey rather greet each other with,\n\"Hi, Vi,\" and then, \"Hi, Vo.\"\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
FOR MY CO-EDITOR, MICHAEL DOLZANI,
\nDECEMBER 31, 2002<\/p>\n
\nO Michael D,\nIt's plain to see\nThat you have overdosed.\nYou've had a high\nFrom too much Frye:\nThat's what I've diagnosed.\nThe cure for this\nIs one big kiss\nTo plant on maiden fair.\nSo you should go\nAnd that bestow\nOn Stacey in her lair.\nRemember too—\nThe two of you—\nWhat Norrie Frye declared:\nThat Eros leads\nTo Eden's meads\nWhen Beulah's mat is shared.\nAnd one could note\nWhat Norrie wrote\nThat \"screw<\/em>'s\" a profound word,*<\/span>\nBut I can't say\nJust that today:\nI might be overheard.\nStill, in the gyre\nOf hot desire,\nIn maelstrom and in vortex,\nYou'll gratify\nWith moaning cry,\n\"Just give me more and more sex.\"\nDon't get me wrong,\nThis little song\nIs not advice for now.\nYou must delay\nJust one more day\nTo pluck the golden bough.\nThat can't occur\n(Keep hands off her)\nUntil this day has passed\nAnd you've rung in\nNew Year again.\nYour joy? Well, unsurpassed.\n<\/pre>\n
*<\/span>Notebook 31.53<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
THE GREAT DOODLE<\/p>\n
\nOn Norrie's Great Doodle\nHe's really quite brainy,\nExposing a cycle\nThat often seems zany,\nWhere Hermes is sunlit\nAnd Eros quite rainy.\nNow who is this fellow?\nWhy, Michael Dolzani.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
THE AXIS MUNDI<\/em><\/p>\n
\nExtract from your noodle\nThat Frygian Doodle,\nOr else you'll get caught in a cycle.\nInstead, climb a tree—\nAn axis mundi<\/em>—\nUncover up there the real Michael.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
THE GREEN AND GOLDEN WORLD<\/p>\n
[“No grass grows under the Denham feet.” —Ron Schoeffel, editor-in-chief, Frye’s Collected Works.]<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThey say the grass is always green\nWhere sheep and goats don't eat,\nAnd also on the other side,\nWhere things are surely meet.\nIt's Norrie's green and golden world—\nWhere Denham hopes his feet\nWill carry him when Norrie's works\nAre certified \"complete.\"<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
FRYE’S HOLOGRAPH HIEROGLYPHICS<\/p>\n
\nThere once was a fellow named Frye\nHis writing would transmogrify\n     When he took up his pen.\n     So again and again\nHis editors squint and then cry.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON FRYE’S MUSINGS ABOUT THEOSOPHY
\nIN THE GROUP OF SEVEN<\/p>\n
\nIn abstract art, for Norrie are\nA theosophic hell and heaven—\nIn Thomson, Harris, even Carr\nAnd others of the Group of Seven.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON THE SCHEDULE FOR EDITING FRYE’S NOTEBOOKS<\/p>\n
\nA notebook here, a notebook there.\nNo schedule should be doctrinaire.\nLet's just approach it laissez-faire.\nAnd when we both have grown grey hair,\nWhy, there'll be notebooks everywhere.\nThe double Ds will get you there\n(The Denham and Dolzani pair).\nThen brave new world, beware, beware,\nYou'll then be fully Norrie's heir.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON JEAN O’GRADY’S COUNSEL TO
\nTHE COLLECTED WORKS<\/em> EDITORS
\nTO STOP WASTING PAPER BY WRITING
\nSILLY E-MAILS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE
\nTO BE FILED, FOR GOD’S SAKE<\/p>\n
\nO'Grady stewed\nAbout the waste of paper\nThat issued from\nE-mail sitcom:\nOur little verbal caper.\n\nThe problem lies\nWith Northrop Frye's\nCommitment to the word.\nHis drunken ape\nWe can't escape\nNo matter how absurd.\n\nBut 'twas not we\nDecreed that she\nPreserve our little notes.\nSo what might seem\nTo her a beam\nAre only tiny motes.\n\nTheir fate should be\nJust this, you see:\nTo melt without a trace\nAnd disappear,\nInto the mere—\nBlake's Sea of Time and Space.\n\nIf she could learn\nJust what to spurn,\nTo sort the big and little,\nThen she'd not file,\nAs if high style,\nOur every jot and tittle.\n\nStill, in the end\nWe all commend\nThe ecologic aim,\nThe trees she'll save\nWill help to stave\nApocalyptic flame.\n\nAnd nice to know\nThat we can go,\nIf we oblige, to God,\nHer guarantee\nTo knaves, you see:\nPerfection.  Oh, how odd.\n\nThat's really swell.\nWho wants a hell?\nWho wants the river Stygian?\nTo save makes sense:\nGod's recompense,\nAn idea downright Frygian.\n\nAnd of course the limerick:<\/em>\n\nIn Tranna there lives an O'Grady,\nReputed to be a bit shady.\n     Recycling, she saves,\n     Unlike the Frye knaves.\nCould be that this woman's a lady.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
FRYE’S PRIMARY CONCERNS<\/p>\n
\nFirst, food, then sex and property\nAnd movement unencumbered.\nThe sum of Frye's concerns is four,\nIf you must have them numbered.\n\nSo you should dine, provide yourself\nWith shelter overhead,\nAnd travel up and down the land,\nThen take your love to bed.\n\nThese are the vital, primal things.\nNo ideology.\nThey form the basic metaphors\nAnd shape mythology.\n\nThe second one may eyebrows raise—\n'Tis common, the reflex\nOf pious folks who claim that they\nAre not too keen on sex.\n\nBut you may get the puritans\nTo crack a smile or giggle.\nJust show them Norrie's earthy form:\n\"Eat, fuck, and own and wiggle.\"*<\/span>\n<\/pre>\n
*<\/span>Notebook 53.144<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
BASTILLE DAY: AT THE WIDDICOMES’
\nHOUSE, NOBLETON, ONTARIO<\/p>\n
\nThere once was a critic named Frye,\nWho was born the fourteenth of July.\n     A toast to our Norrie\n     In all of his glory:\nHis memory with Scotch sanctify.\n\nFor Norrie there's no termini.\nTo that we can all testify.\n     So now we all raise\n     Our glasses in praise\nOf the memory of H. Northrop Frye.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
THE BUDAPEST CONFERENCE<\/p>\n
\nLet's you and I to Budapest\nTo see if Norrie is possessed,\nAnd whether Eros he's repressed\nIn favor of a love expressed\nWith anagogic zeal and zest.\nIn your reply will you suggest\nThat maybe Norrie has transgressed?\nPerhaps we'll find in Budapest,\nWhen we have Norrie all undressed,\nThe Superego's not the best,\nNor yet the Ego, but Id est.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
BUGGER<\/p>\n
\nThe recent exhaustive researches\nOf Denham, Dolzani, and Lee\nReveal in the Frygian notebooks\nThat the subjects of \"bugger\" are three.\nThey are people and gods and conceptions.\nThe first includes one of the Popes.\nJehovah's forever belittled\nWith countless buggering tropes.\nThere are hundreds of other things buggered.\nBut how will we now populate?\nIt's tough to produce our own likeness\nIf we only this way copulate.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
IN REPLY TO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER
\nWE EDITORS SHOULD DO “ALL OF THIS
\nCROSS-REFERENCING”<\/p>\n
\nWhen passages are referenced with\nA cross to link them up,\nIt means that \"butter\" must be joined\nWith instances of \"cup,\"\n\nAnd that in turn will couple with\nOur little Norrie Frye,\nWhich means that every footnote forms\nA network that can tie\n\nEach metaphor and image to\nAll others on the chart\nWhere everything is equal to\nAnd nothing is apart,\n\nAnd everything will penetrate\nWith every other thing.\nSo what's the point, you ask yourself\nWith this cross-referencing?\n\nIf everything is everywhere,\nAs Whitehead once declared.\nThe best approach? Assume the pose\nOf one who's laissez-faired.\n<\/pre>\n
[Frye’s schoolmates called him “Buttercup”]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
QUESTIONING FRYE’S READING
\nOF INFERNO<\/em> 34<\/p>\n
\nDid Dante climb down Satan's thigh,\nOr was he rather shat?\nDid Satan's arse transmogrify\nThe poet into scat?\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON JEFFERY DONALDSON’S QUERY: HOW DOES FRYE
\nSPELL THE WORD FOR THOSE LITTLE WINGED CREATURES?<\/p>\n
\nIn Frye's dictionary\nThe spellings do vary.\nSometimes we get \"faery.\"\nAt others it's \"fairy.\"\nA form tertiary\nAppears as the \"faerie.\"\nIf all this seems hairy,\nNo need to be wary.\nIt's all arbitrary,\nThus discretionary\nFor ed Jeff-arie.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
NUMEROLOGY: ON BEING QUERIED BY
\nMICHAEL DOLZANI ABOUT MY NUMBERING
\nSCHEME FOR FRYE’S NOTEBOOKS AN OTHER
\nEDITORIAL MATTERS<\/p>\n
\nI think the letter should be \"b,\"\nBut if it's not, then make it \"c.\"\nAnd what you've numbered now \"11,\"\nWill surely have to change to \"7.\"\n\nAnd 30-o must split in half—\nNo more the single monograph.\nAnd where the asterisk to place?\nWith entry? Or at page's base?\n\nAnd woe to them who have mistook\nThe typescripts for the written book.\nShould it be colon or a dash?\nLet's pause this matter to rehash.\n\nIt's all alchemical design.\nBy changing numbers we refine\nThe dross from the Collected Works<\/em>—\nSo no impurity now lurks\n\nWithin this mammoth enterprise,\nAt least that we can recognize.\nIs it eschatologic wit?\nOr simply scatologic shit?\n\nIt pains me some to use that noun\nBut still by those of some renown,\nIncluding one named Northrop Frye,\nThe word's been used to signify\n\nWhat Dante in the frozen lake\nDescribes when it is time to break\nAway from Satan's hairy loin\nAnd then pass up from out his groin.\n\nSt. Peter at the gate will ask\nIf notebook numbering's a task\nThat's worse than writing doggerel\nAnd then will send me off to hell.\n\n'Twas I thought up this crazy scheme.\nBut was I drunk or in a dream?\nJust send me off to a zenana.\nDon't ever let me come to Tranna.\n\nA Yahoo is this madman Denham.\nWho ever thought to call him Houyhnhnm?\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
TO NORRIE: FROM DENHAM AND DOLZANI,
\nHIS EDITORS<\/p>\n
\nO Norrie,\nIf only you to us could talk\nYou'd clear up mysteries like \"schalk,\"\nAnd what that \"chess-in-bardo\" means,\nAnd why the book that's sideways leans,\nAway from all the upright tomes,\nAnd why those mirrored palindromes\nWith symmetry that's fearful, aye,\nContinue us to mystify,\nAnd why the book you numbered \"three\"\nRemained your still-born progeny,\nAnd why the paper on King Lear\nCannot be summoned to appear.\nTo us, your editors, it seems\nThat some of your eccentric schemes,\nLike HEAP and ogdoad and such,\nAre overcomplicated much,\nBut would be clear as crystal light\nTo us, as well as neophyte,\nCould we with you communicate\nOr somehow interpenetrate.\n'Twould save us quite a bit of time,\nForeclosing any need for rhyme\nAnd other time-consuming chores\nThat make us both pedantic bores.\nIf only we could briefly meet,\nAnd clear up visions—St. Clair Street,\nSeattle, Edmonton, et al.—\nEpiphanies you could recall,\nAnd make their cryptic essence clear,\nTheir secrecy just disappear.\nBut we, alas, cannot commune.\nThe simple fact: you died too soon.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
LAUNCH<\/p>\n
\nDear friends, we've come to launch a book.\nThey've gathered us by hook and crook,\nA motley crew of gentlefolk\nFrom Nobleton to Roanoke,\nTo hurl these letters on their way\nOn this St. Valentinus' Day.\nA launch, they've dubbed this festive rite,\nTo fire these letters into flight.\nWe crack the covers to unveil\nThe early Helen-Norrie tale,\nAnd then we launch them into space,\nAnd hope they find their astral place.\nAs into space the letters climb,\nWe also launch them into time.\nNow Vic a catapult provides.\nThe Press, a ship to smite the tides,\nBy launching into time herewith\nWill lovers' tale become a myth?\nAnd into space with speed of light\nBecome apocalyptic rite?\nThrough space and time these letters fly,\nThe clock and gravity defy,\nAnd Peter Gzowski's \"Morningside\"\nNow speeds them 'cross the countryside.\nFrom Maritimes to western shore,\nThe letters sail, the letters soar.\nIt's true that launchings often are\nFor sending rocket ships afar.\nBut books can also soar and sail\nAnd sweep aloft beyond the pale,\nApproach the island of the moon,\nWith gods and goddesses commune,\nAnd make their way into the heart\nOf Golgonooza's house of art.\nThis book at sea: an Argonaut—\nO what an archetypal thought—\nOr launched above, an aeronaut.\nSuch travel teases out of thought,\nLike Grecian urns and nightingales\nAnd paradisal holy grails.\nBut once they've reached their apogee\nThe wish and hope of U T P,\nThe editor, and Alvin Lee,\nRoseann and Jane and 3 T 3\nIs that these spatial denizens—\nThe infant green and golden twins—\nWill tumble from their starry height\nAnd find Old Vic, their launching site,\nThen make their way to readers' hands\nAcross the breadth of both our lands.\nWe can't of course the flight erase.\nAs Norrie said, things fall in place\nWhen metaphoric meaning's seen\nAs what the literal has been.\nSo phoenix Norrie, now above,\nAnd dearest Helen, turtle-dove,\nPlease know our purpose is benign:\nThis launching is your Valentine.\n<\/pre>\n
Valentine’s Day, 1996 [Victoria College, Book Launch for The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON LEARNING OF THE MENU FOR THE FRYE
\nBOOK-LAUNCH DINNER PARTY<\/p>\n
\nCocoa lasagna and ostrich to eat—\nStrange combination of pasta and meat.\nBut as Norrie says, for concerns that are prime\nStrange combinations can turn out sublime.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n
ON MY DECISION NOT TO INCLUDE,
\nAGAINST THE WISHES OF MARGARET BURGESS,
\nCERTAIN OF FRYE’S DIAGRAMS IN ONE OF
\nTHE VOLUMES OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FRYE<\/p>\n
\nHe's standing firm,\nThat's what she said.\n(In sotto voce:\nDunderhead.)\nHe didn't give the go-ahead.\n\nThe matter: let it\nRest, she said.\nWhat better place\nTo rest than bed?\n\nThe subject-object\nChart is dead,\nAnd I-A-B—\nWell, it has fled\nLike other charts\nFrom A to Zed.\nThe diagrams—\nThey're put to bed.\n\nAll smaller fryes\nMust go instead\nTo Reader A\nWho will have spread\nHis charts all out\nUpon his bed.\nTo Margaret too—\nThe one who pled\nFor charts behind\nAnd charts ahead—\nHer diagrams:\nAsleep, unread.\nSo notebooks now\nTheir charts have shed.\nThe diagrams\nAll put to bed.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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