Hayy Ibn Yaqzan Imagery

         One piece of imagery from Hayy Ibn Yaqzan that stood out to me the most so far was the imagery of corruption of form. This is used to describe how one's soul does not perish or corrupt even when the body changes form, similar to how "water is chang'd into air, and air into water; or when plants are turn'd into earth or ashes and earth again into plants". The narrator describes how as the soul is an incorporeal thing and is not dependent upon a body, so it cannot be susceptible to corruption.

        I found this imagery interesting mainly because it made it much easier to understand the concept of why a soul is detached from a body. I also was quite relieved as this was one example of imagery that we as twenty first century readers can still relate to from a philosophical text that was written so long ago. I found it interesting how when air and water interchange forms, at a high level their core contents don't change (air molecules and water molecules), and how this was used to represent how when the soul's body changes, the soul is not vulnerable those changes. However, I personally don't agree that change is necessarily a cause of corruption (at least in the way the word is used today – the narrator may have meant to use it with a different connotation).