Friday 29 July 2011

What is Literature?

                         The word literature is used to different ways. It simply means anything that is written or spoken material. Literature  supplying  information  about  different  things  but  literature written  in  the  form  of  a novel  or  a  play  or a  poetry  is  called  serious  literature .The  literature  like  advertisement, journalism  are  not  serious  literature  .They   lack  the  quality  of  permanent.

         Literature  is  writing  which  express  and  communicates  thoughts  feelings  and  attitudes  towards  life. The  novelist  or  a  poet  wants  that his  work  should  be  read  even  after  years  permanent. Some  writer  talk  about  disposal  art  but  most  of  them  want  immortality .   For example, Shakespeare in his sonnet writes.     

 ‘’       So long as man breath or eyes can see,

       So    long   lives   this   and   this gives life to   thee’’
        To  define  literature  is  a  difficult  thing  but  it  is  not  difficult  to  recognize  literature   

1)  LITERATURE    IS  CRITICISM  OF  A  LIFE
                The  write  should  communicate  same  feelings  or  idea  which  we  can  recognized  as  either  actual  or  potentially. Apart  from  emotion  which  even  if  we  have  not  actually  felt  it. We  recognize  as  the  kind  of  thing  we   would  feel  in  certain  circumstances.



2) Literature should be true to life
                    Literature  should  always  concern  with  thoughts  and  feeling  which  we  all  recognized  as  belonging  to  real  life .For  example,  Holbrook’  poem  ‘’FINGER’S  IN  THE  DOOR’’.In  this  poem ,  the  feeling  of  separation  is  expressed.

3) Literature will have   same these qualities.
                1) Psychological   Truth
                   2) Craftsmanship                                                                                                                                    
                     3) Originality
                     4) Consciousness of moral values
                            In short, literature is a permanent expression. In  other words, of  some  thought  or  feeling  or  idea  about  life  and  world.