What
is Literature?
I would like to start this question with a quote by Northrop Frye,
he was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist. The quote is-
“The world of Literature is a world where there
is no reality except that of the human imagination”.
The above mentioned is very apt for Literature, as it is
based on imagination; I too have got some imaginative description for
Literature. For me Literature is something very challenging which daily rises
with new questions during dawn
and sets with new answers during dusk.
I am studying Literature since five years but still I am
unable to find mine own apt definition for Literature. Whenever I think I have
got an apt definition then again Literature unfolds in itself in a new way
infront of me.
Everyone have their definition of their own and so do I have.
For me Literature is like a Marigold flower
with end number of petals in it and also it has got an essence
like the flower has of its own. It also acts like a guiding
light for the new generation of people to get well-accustomed
with their roots without believing different types of interpretations. Now I
read Literature to challenge the age- old beliefs
of people and to bring out new definitions of it.
Literature always welcomes both criticizers as well as supporters;
I prefer to find out for myself what I want to be rather than walking on the trodden
path which people have traveled from the ages.
Last but not the least, I would like to quote few lines from
Robert Frost’s poem that is “Road Not Taken”,
which is one of my favourite poem which fascinates
me to look life and Literature in a different way and the lines are-
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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