Writing & Introduction to Literature for Beginners (part one)
Literature is the expression of one’s excellent thoughts, feelings, emotions filled with truth and beauty, for in truth lies actuality and reality and-- in beauty the delights of the senses that exalts the mind and gives aesthetic pleasure. Main Divisions of Literature: Prose—called the language of the mind it is written in paragraphs and sentences that can be done in two types of genre; fiction and non-fiction Poetry--- called the language of the heart it is written in verses composing stanzas. Branches of Poetry: Lyric poetry—written in song like expression of the poet’s thoughts, feelings, emotions that has direct and primary object---the expression of personal emotion or emotional conceptions of the Author. The kinds of Lyric poetry are: Song—a literary work direct, short and simple adapted to be sung example of this type of work is “Song to Celia” by John Donne. ---Ode--a poem written to be sung often written in exalted style but it is longer than a song usually addressed