After M.A. my view on literature

What is Literature ?

This question was asked by sir when we took admission in the department. Where it was handwritten notes because we are not used to using such digital platforms to express our thoughts. At that time I thought that Literature is just a study of a particular text, but now I can understand that Literature is not just studying a text, but it studies language, culture, world and everything that is connected with human beings. According to Anzar Ahmed

"Literature is beyond definition, it is more than we see and perceive"

But If someone tell me to define Literature, i can give a very simple definition to them,

"Literature is a way of looking at life, through the different genres, like drama or novel."

Literature is like a ship in the ocean. Ship takes people from one place to another in the ocean. And literature takes people from one phase to an advanced phase of life. Both give you a wide view through their windows.

If you can see in the above image you can understand that the ship is sinking into the water. So it may happen that sometimes literature won't be able to save itself from sinking into the crowd of society. Literature sometimes fails because people aren't ready to accept that work of art. As people say if a ship was sunk that the helmsman was not good that is why it happened or they will say it is the negligence of the helmsman the same thing happened with writers also. People scolded them and said that they are destroying society. Even if the ship was sunk it becomes the subject of study. because it has a lot many stories in it and people will study it like history. This is what literature taught us to think from both sides, negative as well as positive. So as you have seen in this image, the ship gives you a wider way of looking at the ocean. Literature gives you a wider way of looking at life. Like a ship, literature is also a pilgrimage of life. In between, you may face many problems but from it, we have to learn things. Ship floating in the water, same in literature balancing between society and people. For a ship, a lighthouse becomes a guide for a further voyage, in literature TEACHERS, CRITICS and SOCIETY are our lighthouses who guide us to understand the problems of life and how to solve them. Literature also teaches you how to look at the problems that the world is facing today.