Have you ever heard the word Literature? Some people
say that it is a tool to help you wander in other people’s lives. It can
make you travel around the world because it is a quest for understanding the
world and humanity. Literature can be a written work that even the blinds want
to see and read. It can also be an oral record or work that even the deaf
would want to listen to. Literature, the bottom line of which is language,
presents well-expressed ideas or feelings, usually symbols or metaphors. To
express feelings spontaneously is, of course, different from writing or talking
about it in ordinary communication discourse.
Is literature important at all? Why is it in the
curriculum? Why do many students consider it as merely another language
requirement? Since literature is a formulation of man’s inner, any man who
reads literature will learn to contemplate himself and in the process can
control and refine his inward experiences. He can be in touch with things that
are “deeply human”. Today, anything “deeply human” is the definition for
“spirituality,” according to a sharing of Emma Regis. Let us now proceed with the definitions of
literature given by different authors.
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