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.
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