The English major's creed

"The poet does not affirm anything therefore he can't lie." Every single English major has said this in some form or another. We are English majors because there is no wrong answer in literature. --There is nothing further from the truth when it comes to grades at the semester's end.

Frye discusses the power of detachment from imagination in his book. This is essential to reading with an open mind. We have to learn to detach.

All literature has many meanings. It is polyseamus. Poetry shows us not what is but what could be, all the possibilities.

Sidney argues that nature can only give you brass and the poet can give you gold because the poet uses nature to enhance nature therefore making it better.