Imagination vs. Experience

“[Imagination is] the power of constructing possible models of human experience.” (p.8)


I think Frye is saying that since we are human and we have the ability of consciousness we can imagine another world of things that we want. He goes on to say "In the world of imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens". I think he is just showing a contrast of how we can think of things and not do them because of our level of consciousness. I noticed that he only said "possible models of human experience". I believe the reason he only said human experience is because we can only see in our imagination a humans perspective and nothing else and you can't truly imagine the perspective of another animal because they don't have this consciousness or the ability of imagination. I agree with what Frye is saying because if you really think about it when you imagine something, most of the time it is something of human desire or something you have heard happen and you want to happen to yourself. For example, you could imagine what winning the lottery is like because you've heard of other human's experiences of this happening.