A signifigant portion of today's class involved discussion of the vice-presidential debate, and the use of rhetoric and metaphors employed by both participants. The big thing that we came away with is yet again the realization that metaphors are where the power resides; now it's a different case if one is able to wield this power effectively or not.

And the discussion of repitition(both of words and images) and how it relates to literature(and presumably all the rest of life). It is a great tool, but must be employed with caution. Because if you repeat something too much, even if it's tragic, it can become comic. This may be one's intention and it may not be. Repitition must be used accordingly.


It's also been pointed out that the Myth of Declining Ages has appeared in everything we have read for class. And it is strangely circular and endless just as Frye's symbols and Vico's Ages are. It all goes on and on endlessly...repeating and repeating...

And I also think I'd like to see Hans the Hedgehog now.