LITERATURE: What are you?

           I had this interview with two students last week, about Literature. I found their answers similar to each other. asking them about literature, which some students think is boring, wasn't so hard that it only took me a couple of minutes or so of asking.

         Joseph, a classmate of mine who I interviewed, shared his idea about literature being a form of recreation. He seconded that it comforts the feelings of a human being. And Eloisa, another interviewee who is a student of a computer based institute, has the same idea with what she said,"...reading novels is what I usually do during my spare time."

            Both of them find Literature as a form of recreation which they see productive as the earlier said in the interview that Literature can deeply soften the inner spirituality of a person, and that it can really entertain and give meaning to a person; and the latter expressed that with reading novels, novels being part of Literature, helps enrich her vocabulary and nonetheless gives her lessons of life.

          Well, generally, most people have their own idea of Literature. I'm not saying that I disagree on what my interviewees have said because concepts of it varies from people to people and generation from generation. I, as someone who is indulged in writing prose and poetry, has something fairly different to theirs.

           First of all, if we try to look for a technical definition of Literature, the most common thought is: written works with artistic value. And during the ancient times, it was concerned with finding beauty or the belles-lettres tradition.

         As for me, literature is art. The Art of Letters. Where the letters are the actors, interpreters, of life. They reflect what a writer feels; exposes who a writer really is; and brings magic to the people who are fond of it, of Literature. As I have said, I am someone who is indulged in writing prose and poetrybut I specialize in poetry. Writing as part of Literature is relieving. Relieving because I get to spill out my unsaid thoughts and concealed feelings through writing a poem and sometimes prose, whether a short verse or a 10-stanza poem, either of sadness or gladness, or of failure or success.

       Literature is basically from human experiences written in such a way that it becomes relating and endearing to its readers rather than plainly written without artistry.

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