What is Literature?

According to me literature is cocktail form that tells a story, dramatizes a situation, and expresses emotions, analyses ideas. Which helps us grow personally and intellectually– Provides an objective base for knowledge and understanding– Shapes our goals and values by clarifying our own identities, both positively and negatively– In Robert Frost’s word: “Literature makes us human. We can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages. Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by universality intellectual and emotional appeal.”

            Literature improves our language proficiency, it enriches our knowledge about a culture, it helps us to explore the nature of human beings and it gives us spiritual and psychological relief.

                Literature primarily gives pleasure and knowledge, we read literature for relaxation. Literature gives us an insight into the tradition, custom, belief, attitudes, folklore, values of the age in which it is written. Literature get us away to an imaginary world, thus forget our problems and obligations of everyday life.

            Literature is appealing mainly because of its relationship to human experience. It sheds light on the complexity and ambiguity of human experiences and thus broadens our awareness of the possibilities of the experience.

           

So, I can only said that, never under estimate the power of literature.