May be it is the addiction of its lovers. and It is not lines those are written by writers but more than that. May be it is the mirror of society but sometimes it is more than that as we were told by our sir what you can not do in this world make it happen trough literature so it is not our society but it is the world of Utopia. It is not be all covered after saying what literature is because all have their own perception to write this response and that is the main reason that we are 22 students studied together under one roof but literature gave various perception to each to look towards it. it is the main phenomenon that happens through literature. "It is spicy and it is sugar itself". As some writers including the critic Mathew Arnold says, at the last or in between the living world the Literature must be a medicine to overcome the mental disease. so we are appreciating from today as the person of literature.Literature is free cage which will not give you freedom from its addiction but will make you free to feel free in this world. the pity person in this cruel world will be saved by only literature. it has the imagination that is the literature itself. the thought which are experienced in any way gets its imaginative form then it becomes literature.
This is my view on literature, wrote 2 years ago before getting admission into the department of english.