The Educated Imagination Analysis

“The writer of literature can only write out what takes shape in his mind” (Frye, 17). In The Educated Imagination one of Frye’s overarching idea present throughout the novel is that the imagination is the supreme activating power of the mind. For Frye the imagination is best expressed in literature, he argues that literature can educate and enrich the imagination, thus expanding our horizon of beliefs. Once we immerse ourselves our imagination and literature we detach ourselves from reality, resulting in the broadening of our mindsets and perspectives. This enrichment in our imagination comes from the capacity to make connections between all works of literature, and identify the human mind with the natural world. Such analogies illuminate