How Literature formed me?

How Literature formed me?

Literature is nothing but the way of Living Life.

Firstly, Literature is written by different persons though they belong to different culture, community, regions in short different variations and in different time.

            Finally, the day has come as I was looking for the answer of Literature. Here, I'm making an effort to throw some more light on my own write up (my view points) about literature. When I completed my graduation at that time I was not able to digest literature. But now I do have consciousness and significance of literature in my life as it taught me numerous stuffs and made me what I am today.

    Here are those two image about Literature that have been written by me at the time of taking admission in M.A.

“It is our choice that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”

 Firstly, I would like to express my opinion as literature designed my life and it matters more in my life too.

“Literature is not something to put your mind into, literature is something only a heart can understand”

Literature, for me, is like a ray of hope in this shadowy world. It is an escape from the negativity of life.  I write this things because it always stimulates me. In my poetry I always write things regarding gloominess and pessimism than it turned into optimism .It has given me a new perception and has drastically changed me as a person as it just made me a better person, more humble, modest, sensitive, sympathetic towards others and great things that imaginative power and judging the things which literature provided me. Last but not the list that is Nature as Literature possesses the thematic concern such as Nature.

And I personally believe that it is like Friend, Philosopher and Guide. Moreover, Literature is like the pole star to the lost; it guides one through miseries in life by sharing to people the experiences who have gone through such situations and overcome them.

To others it is like a friend, a companion in one can see his/her true reflection. Reading it gives him a feeling that he is the one being depicted.

            Studying literature is a critical components in education, it teaches us to see our self-reflected in Art as it is the form of Art. It allows people to learn about life. It is also teaches universal human experience. It is also allows us to know about customs, rituals, beliefs, superstitions and culture of other religion and develop secular approach towards it, and also helps us to see the world people, place , things,  events through different eyes by different viewpoint.

Let’s stretch review of literary texts which I studied in M.A.

• ·        Renaissance Literature (Hamlet, Paradise Lost, Dr. Faustus, and Poetry of John Donne)
• ·        Neo-Classical (Gulliver’s Travels)
• ·        Criticism (Plato, Aristotle, Theories)
• ·        I.W.E (Tagore, Fakeer of Jhungheera, Kanthapura, The Purpose)

While studying literature it also provided me new angle looking at poetry as William Wordsworth makes remarks about poetry in his Lyrical Ballads that

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, taking its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity”.

Moreover, my perspective about poetry got new height when I came across the poems of John Keats as his poems contain Beauty, pain, power, imagination, nature, love. Keats as the supreme lover of beauty says,

“A thing of beauty is joy forever”.

“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty

That is all ye know on earth,

And all ye need to know”

Now Let’s talk about Indian Literature Here in this paper I mostly like one poem The Fakeer of Jhungheera by Henry Derozio . This is a love poem but strongly it criticized Indian Society especially Derozio talks about rigid ruled and rituals of Satipratha.

Plays

Hamlet is the tragedy of the Philosopher and thinking man what I learnt from this play that never take too much time for taking any kinds of decisions. As we know that because Delay Tragedy happened.

The other that is The Purpose” play by T.P Kailasm. Here the playwright gives more space to the character of Eklavya and he also deconstructs the idea of Eklavya’s Character Presented in Mahabharata.

Another play that is Waiting for Godot. This play deals with so many things like Existentialism, nothingness etc. it appeals reader to ask his/her self about importance of being Presence. Why we are on the Earth? What are the moral Duties?

Moreover, It is gives message that while doing Nothing there is Something. It has a different meaning in different ways. A Person who has always Desire for any achievements till birth to Death his list of Desire will never come to end. In the Same way in this play there is waiting which has no any end or meaning. 

I have also studied Post-Colonial Literature. Here, in this paper there is an interesting play A Tempest by Aime Ceasiare. It is the representation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  

Novels

Old Man and sea Novel it is seemingly a simple story Santiago is an old, Experienced Fisherman .Here old man does not depend on luck. Luck plays a major role in the story and in our everyday lives too. Anyone can have luck of course, but not have everyone can have determination, Skill and Perseverance. A man Continues to do whatever he must do to the best of his ability.

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”