LITERATURE
Literature
is a body of written or oral works related by art. Actually Literature
different with art. Art may consist of painting, dancing, singing and etc,
while literature consist of fiction or non-fiction like poetry or novel. Literature
consist of factual and imaginative information which inform and educated the reader.
Example of factual information is journalistic or non-fiction and for
imaginative information the example is fiction, poetry,
or drama. We study literature because of its great value, such as education and
entertainment. Literary Appreciation is the ability to understand and enjoy works
of Literature. There are many ways to perform literary, recite poem, creat and
tell short stories, performing drama, etc. One of the way to appreciate
literary work is study the structure and the language. the language here means
word meaning. Beside that, We can appreciate the literary work from the the the
background and the author.
There
are three main genres of literature. The first literature is
poetry or poem, William Wordswort defines “poetry as the spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings recollected in the moment of tranquility”. The definitions
means that poetry is natural, imaginative and emotional expression. A poem is
usually written in stanza and arranged in lines. The elements of poetry is
rythm, ryme, figurative language, diction, amd symbols. A person who writes
poems or we called poet have some purposes while they creat a poem, for example
to tell a story, to humorous, to describe (a person, place, or thing), to
persuade and the main purpose is to express their feeling.
The
second literature is drama. It is defined as a work of art acted on the stage
in front of audience. Aristotle also defines drama as “imitated human action”.
This definition means that what is acted on stage as drama, copies actual life
situations. There are types of drama, like comedy. It is a kind of drama which
amuses and ends happily. And then tragedy, it is a form of drama which end is usually
sad. For example Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare. The last is
tragic-comedy, This is a drama which have both qualities of a tragedy or comedy.
While the elements of drama is dialogue, audience or group of people watching a
performance of a play on stage ,stage, act fom the player, and scenes.
The
third genre is prose. Prose is written languge of someone. Prose is different
with poem. In the prose there is no line and stanza. The message of the prose
is often conveyed without acting. The kinds of prose is fiction, non-fiction,
autobiography and biography. Fiction is imaginary story, as for non-fiction is
true life story, and autobiography is fictional prose written by somebody about
himself. Autobiography almost similar with biography, but biography is written
by another person.
Literature
not only has a sense to entertaint an provide pleasure, but also has
advantages. For example is we can learn about life from the literary works, it
also make our soul is more sharp because literary works consist of various
story that performed in written or oral text. By reading the literary works we
can know how long the language is used, so we can enrich our vocabularies and
understanding the difficult word. Reading literary works also make us more
imaginative and creative.
From
the explanation above about literature, we can conclude that literature is
written or oral work may consist of text based on factual and imaginative
information. There are three kinds of literature, they are poetry, drama, prose
and each genres has the elements. Study about literary works will be give new
knowledge to the reader or audience. Actually there are many advantages of
literature that we can get by reading literary works. Not only by reading, but
also by watching, like watching drama which performed on the stage. If we learn
about literature and how to appreciate literary work, we can be more imaginative person.
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