" Literature consist of the those writing which interpret the meaning of nature and life , in words of charm and power , touched with the personality of the author , in artistic forms of the permanent interest " .

- By , Henry Van Dyke

" literature is where i go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit , where i hope to find absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart".

- By Salman Rushdie

Here i would like to discuss about the my point of view about ;

" What is Literature " ?

- Literature is different from other writings.Literature is one of the fine arts in which literary writer uses language as the medium for expression of ideas and feelings.

- Literature is made of many works of the art in different literary forms as well as literary criticism.

- In other words literature consists of creative writing and also critical writing.

- Literature is broadly classified under two categories . They are 1) Fictional Literature and 2) Non- Fictional Literature .

- Sometimes literature is classified as literature of power and literature of knowledge .

- Sometimes critics talk about descriptive literature and narrative literature.

- The Writers selects a particular literary forms to express his ideas or feelings .

- The literary forms are novel , Short-stories , novella , poetry , that including song , lyrics , epic , sonnet , ode, Ballad , etc.

- Literature maybe in the Drama forms including ; Tragedy , Comedy , Tragic- Comedy Etc.

- Sometimes literature is the divided under two types as : Prose Literature , and Poetry Literature .

- The Literature Writer Offers Specifics design through his work also . The writers try to make his work classical by using various devise or techniques.

- The literary works indirectly teaches mankind of wisdoms. Moreover , each works deals with basic human values as well as emotion of the common people .

- The language of literature is ornamental and poetics. Literature writings creates our interest in aesthetics . Literature gives us sense of beauty and at the same time it helps our upliftment.

- Literary piece comments upon human life and human relationship.

According to me Importance of the literature :

- Literature is the important for the many reasons , including its ability to provide pleasure to readers to help readers empathize with other and to develop the thinking the skills. While Literature educational importance is the often downplay is favor of business and technical educations , the study of the books offers many positive benefits to readers .

Here i would like to discuss about the concept of the literariness :

- The literariness refers to the unique quality with which each literary work is marked. It is vague concept perhaps because in any work of art many things together become literariness .

- We can say that total effects of a literary piece is literariness. The writes uses various poetic devices while writers a works of art .

- All these devise add to the literariness of a work .Similarly the style of the writers is use of language , the selection of the lexical words to creates specific atmosphere in his writing all these go with literariness.

- " Reality speaking , literariness distinguishes a work of art from other writings.

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