Archetype
Archetype is the original pattern from which copies are made.
Example" From Another Time
by
W. H. Auden I sit in one of the dives
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.
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.
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.
Archetype is the original pattern from which copies are made.
Example"
From Another Time
by
W. H. Auden
I sit in one of the dives
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.
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.
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.