  Class Notes: 5/26/04 -Frye: Why ask questions of what you are going to get out of literature- these are the wrong questions.
-“Willing suspension of Disbelief”- to listen to stories Entry #5 : I believe that when you read a poem and ask yourself what you should be getting out of it, you are morphing its existence into something else. You are not taking it for what it is, but changing it because you are trying to add your own meaning to its existence, which robs it of its authenticity. As discussed in class, there is an experience of the text that is meant to be felt, whether clear or mysterious.
Asking the wrong questions takes the reader away from the poetic text and experience. Taking logical reasoning out of it- a willing suspension of disbelief- allows you to go through this experience more fully. As Dr. Sexson put perfectly, what is gained is a sense of how well and wonderful things come together. 
