We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit. (p. 325) - Northrop Frye

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

The poet...is an identifier: everything he sees in nature he identifies with human life.

Literature does not reflect life, but it doesn't escape or withdraw from life either: it swallows it.