Archetype+-+Clair+Kang

Archetype is the original pattern from which copies are made. Example" ** From Another Time by W. H. Auden ** On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
 * Archetype **
 * I sit in one of the dives

Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy, And what dictators do, The elderly rubbish they talk To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

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The second and third stanzas are "copies" of the first stanza. The pattern (with the colon) is the same.

EXERCISE (MY OWN EXAMPLE)

I ate a sandwich Then I went to bed

I ate some pizza Then I went to school

I ate some ice cream Then I went to the gym.

Again, the second and the third stanzas are copied from the first stanza, which is the archetype in this case.