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What is literature ?

Literature has always been there with human race, since from the very early stage of human race. Literature is not the thing which had came only after the invention of writing technology and human habit of recording. In its childhood literature was full of fantasy and imagination of abstract ideas and experiences.in this stage literature was basically in oral form. It was not like Hegel's concept about history "that what is written only that can be called literature". It is very nerrow way of looking at literature. Thus one has to bore in mind that literature not always written thing. The history of literature is the history of human race and its development. As the human race developed from stage to stage, so the literature.  As human race has gone through several stages of developments in the same way literature has also gone through several stages of developments. And these developments turns out as the genre of literature, and in each stage it has develope

How does literature form me ?

Life itself is like a train which has been started its journey from certain station, and destined to reach the last station- the final destination. These two stations are conformed which can not be denied. But in between these two stations there comes lots of other stations, it stops for a while and then again move on. In this train before five years I have aboard from the station called literature and now the next station of this train- called life is soon going to come. But before it come let me look back to my experience of this journey, how it was ?, what I have learned from this journey? What kind of changes it has bring? Let me confess " studying English literature was not my choice but only option for better career," but it is truth I learned from life and from literature that what you like today you may not like sometime after, the same thing happened with me as the time passes I started to like literature. Let me begin with my early collage days because