Notes 9/7

9/7
1. Metaphor
2. Repetitive parallels
3. The four levels are:
---4) speculative/romantic/metaphorical/Kerygmatic- "pertaining to preaching, esp. as of the gospel (as opposed to charismatic, a "magnetic personality w/ the ability to attract")
---3) ideological/rhetorical- figures of speech
---2) conceptual
---1) descriptive- bare facts ( ex. NOT Northrop Frye)
4. Vico - understood origins of all human culture in poetry or metaphor-- "Everything is made up."
5. "Poesis" is Greek for "to make."
6. Everybody is a plagiarist
7. "Hieroglyphic" means "language of the Gods. Comes from "heir" (sacred) and "glyphic" (pictures). This made up the first age of language, and since we go from better to "worser" : ) the next age is the language of heroes, which is aristocratic/poetic (think Shakespeare). After this came the age of men and the language of economics (how we speak now). And then there is the chaos stage where all anyone speaks is gibberish ("... and he was like, 'whatever, dude.'")