{"id":30766,"date":"2012-11-09T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=30766"},"modified":"2012-11-09T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:54:07","slug":"remembrance-day-frye-on-in-flanders-field-and-mythological-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2012\/11\/09\/remembrance-day-frye-on-in-flanders-field-and-mythological-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day: Frye on In Flanders Field and Mythological Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Remembrance Day, remembering how Frye viewed war and peace and poetry, how he says in what is probably my favourite book of his, <em>Words with Power<\/em>, that working in words and other media, may be our only way to salvation on earth, that is,\u00a0the only way to\u00a0<em>show<\/em> instead of <em>argu<\/em>e with \u00a0the warmongers among\u00a0 the\u00a0 ideologues and\/or the \u00a0&#8220;psychotic apes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>In Flanders Fields<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is perhaps not an accident that the best known of all Canadian poems, \u201cIn Flanders\u2019 Fields,\u201d should express, in a tight, compressed, grim little rondeau, the same spirit of an inexorable ferocity which even death cannot relax, like the Old Norse warrior whose head continues to gnash and bite the dust long after it had been severed from his body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bush Garden<\/strong>:\u00a0 150<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Ideologues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I keep having a vision of a guide or preacher or some professional haranguer standing in front of\u00a0 a war cemetery in Flanders with a million crosses behind him and explaining how human aggressiveness has such essential survival value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late Notebooks 1982-1990: <\/strong>678<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Human and Divine Commands:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Decalogue God says, \u201cThou shalt not kill,\u201d or, in Hebrew, \u201cKill not.\u201d Period, as we say now: there is nothing about judicial execution, war, or self-defence. True, these are taken care of elsewhere in the Mosaic code, because the commandment is addressed to human beings, that is, to psychotic apes who want to kill so much that they could not even understand an unconditional prohibition against killing, much less obey it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Great Code:<\/strong> 232<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cayley<\/strong>: Does the word also become a command?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frye<\/strong>: It often takes the form of a command, yes. I think that the word of command in ordinary society is the word of authority, which relates to that whole area of ideology and rhetoric.\u00a0 That kind of word of command has to be absolutely minimal. It can\u2019t have any comment attached to it. Soldiers won\u2019t hang themselves on barbed wire in response to a subordinate clause. If there\u2019s any commentary necessary, it\u2019s the sergeant\u2019s major\u2019s job to explain what it is, not the officer\u2019s. Now that is a metaphor, it\u2019s an analogy, of the kind of command that comes from the other side of the imagination, what has been called the kerygmatic, the proclamation from God. That is not so much a command as a statement of what your own potentiality is and of the direction in which you have to go to attain it.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a command that leaves your will free, whether you follow it or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northrop Frye in Conversation<\/strong>: 182<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Human Peace\u00a0vs Mythological Peace<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In between these visions of creation\u00a0comes the Incarnation, which presents God and man as indissolubly locked together in a common enterprise. This is Christian, but the answering and supporting \u201cThou\u201d of Buber, which grows out of the Jewish tradition, is not imaginatively very different. Faith, then, is not developed by clogging the air with questions of the \u201cDoes a God really exist?\u201d type and answering them with equal nonsense, but in working, in words and other media, towards a peace that passes understanding, not by contradicting understanding, but by disclosing, behind the human peace that is merely a temporary cessation of a war, the proclaimed or mythological model of a peace infinite in both its source and its goal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words with Power<\/strong>:\u00a0 124-125<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Remembrance Day, remembering how Frye viewed war and peace and poetry, how he says in what is probably my favourite book of his, Words with Power, that working in words and other media, may be our only way to salvation on earth, that is,\u00a0the only way to\u00a0show instead of argue with \u00a0the warmongers among\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[87,122,1,170],"tags":[183,184,185,190,191,192,196,200],"class_list":["post-30766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerygma","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-words-with-power","tag-in-flanders-field","tag-kerygma-2","tag-kerygmatic","tag-peace","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2","tag-remembrance-day","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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