My Relationahip With Literature

Literature has been embedded into my life in more ways then I ever realized. It just took awhile for me to notice it because I was trying to avoid it for so long. Literature to me always meant reading stories, and poems that surpassed my understanding. Although now with a little more clarification, and description my boundaries have been expanded. Literature is not limited to the poems and short stories that I don’t understand. It is spread from anywhere to essays, short stories, poems, and dramas. It is also the fictional stories and poems that I enjoyed reading growing up. The poems and stories that would paint such beautiful images in my mind. All along it had been one of things I have enjoyed most, and that is reading. It has helped me understand and explore other places, people, and lives that I never knew existed. It has helped me broaden my way of thinking. Yet, it has helped me go deeper into things that I thought I already knew. It is my source of knowledge and way of getting to know life better. Literature has also helped me connect with others. In the sense that through just a few words we reach a level of understanding that common language could not of done. Although in other instances when I don’t agree with others it helps me see their perspective. It allows me to learn from others. It has so many possibilities and different meanings to every single individual that it allows me to see points or ideas that I myself would of missed. One issue I have had with literature is my lack of patience. When reading any piece that I myself have not chosen I skim through the words without giving them the opportunity to speak to me. That is where I believe I miss out on the most. I am hoping that through this class I will gain that patience and understanding that I need to comprehend pieces that I didn’t chose. I hope that I will be able to comprehend and give opportunities to pieces that I don’t always understand in the first time of reading. Another issue I have is analyzing, or being an “active reader” which I believe also stems from my lack of patience. I really hope that through this course I will be taught how to better analyze literature and gain from it as much as possible. But overall I hope to gain the patience I need to make my possibilities of exploring, understanding, and learning in life endless.