More on The Idea of Order and anagogy

In the anagogic phase, literature imitates the total dream of man, and so imitates the thought of a human mind which is at the circumference and not at the center of reality.
-Frye 119

In it's anagogic phase, then , poetry imitates human action as total ritual, and so imitates the action of the omnipotent human society that contains all the powers of nature within itself.
-Frye 120

As I was revisiting my thoughts on Steven's The Idea of Order at Key West, I found some new and interesting connections. It starts with the idea presented on page 119. This passage was another sort of light bulb in that the human dream, which is a kind of all seeing all knowing powerful representation of human life and interaction, is not at the center of reality projecting out, but at the edges holding it all together. We take out dreams and thoughts and wrap them around the reality that is presented before us, either to understand or to control. This poem demonstrates through out it's entirety how it's not only she, the singing maker, who is involved in this changing of reality, but also the bystanders who experience the effects of her reality altering song.

"But it was more than that, more even than her voice, and ours, among the theatrical distances, bronze shadows heaped on High horizons, mountainous atmospheres of sky and sea."

But is was more than both her and the regular human onlookers. The reality, the dark sea, outer voice of the sky, and of the summer air are more than the human persona, or society. It, the reality, the world in which the poem breaths was more than the onlookers, more even that that of she who sang it's creation or alteration. They, the human society is not at the center of this reality, but at the edges, holding this dream, thie other reality of Key West together.

In regards to the second quote from Frye : In it's anagogic phase, then , poetry imitates human action as total ritual, and so imitates the action of the omnipotent human society that contains all the powers of nature within itself.

This second passage from Frye embodies the entirety of what the poem is I think. She is singing, as a maker, a poem. This poem not only imitates the omnipotent human, in all her powers of creation, but it contains all the powers of nature within itself. The entire third verse contains and imitates nature.
If it was only the dark voice of the sea
That rose, or even colored by many waves;
If it was only the outer voice of shy
And cloud, of sunken coral water-walled
However clear, it would have been deep air,
The heaving speech of air, a summer sound
Repeated in a summer without end
And so on.

She, the maker, contains all the secrets and powers of nature otherwise how could she alter the reality of nature around her and her audience?

Now for something completely different...
I have reached page 472 in Don Quixote and have successfully started part two in this impressive novel. It began with the author defending his second section of Don Quixote because it seems there was some controversy whether the second installment was as authentic as the first. But all that aside, the story picks up where it left off, with poor old Don bedridden and staying true in his madness despite the efforts of the barber, the priest, his niece, and the housekeeper. And poor Sancho still striving to achieve is promised insula.

"And no doubt this was a kind of prophecy; poets are calledvates, which means they are soothsayers."
-468
Don Quixote says this when defending his books of chivalry ( and his madness of believing them a reality) and I think it ties in beautifully with what we've been discussing in our readings of Phillips and Frye.