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LITERARY FORMS
THE NATURE AND ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
Literature is a progressive mark of Man’s civilization
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It most appropriately preserves the treasures of the mind
and soul
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How is the boundary drawn between a book on cookery and
Paradise Lost or some other masterpiece? The border between the two is an area
of uncertainly
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On the other hand, Hallam included jurisprudence, theology and even medicine
under the general head of literature
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First of all
literature is comprised of those books by reason of their subject matter and mode
of treatment are of general human interest, and in the second place, the element
of form and the pleasure which that from gives are regarded as something
essential
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These works appeal to particular sections of people in the society
whereas literature makes a universal appeal
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It not only imparts
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That is why, we do care for literature
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Impressions come to us from the
outsider world through the windows of our senses
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His
sensory experience is heightened and he finds room for endless enrichment of
experience and extension of knowledge
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In reading a book of this kind we are bought into fresh and close reactions
with life and place of literary works yields its power also
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It is this element that gives it the
most immediate and lasting interest for all of us
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It has no exclusion in respect
to convey of origin, the time of composition or the language medium
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The distinguishing character of
literature in its concerns with man’s inner life has passions of moral truth, a
feeling for university, a grasp of solutions and an instinct for beautiful form
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The formal
decisions of literature could be translated into terms of life in order to understand
significantly the meaning they convey to us
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Literature is in life
and to find out the sources of literature, we have to consider the impulses that go
into the making of various form of literary expression
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They are1
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3
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Our love of form as form, above all, man has a strong impulse to confide
others what he thinks and feels and hence literature directly expresses the
thoughts and feelings of the writer
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He is always under stress to impart them to
others
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This impulse turns out as an imbued
expression with artistic creation
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We have a
natural impulse to listen with great interest what others have to say
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Since the last
of the impulses is common to all, take into account the first three, which

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continually merge into life
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We distinguish them on the basis of those impulses that
predominate in the essay or the novel or the drama
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It is not enough if we consider these impulse that produce literature
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Since these subjects are
varied in nature, they do not fall into any systematic classification
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2) The experience of men as man, viz, the common question of life and death,
sin and destiny, God and man’s relation with him, the hopes and aspirations
of human race, now and hereafter
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4) The external world, of nature and man’s relationship with it and
5) Man’s own efforts to create and express under various forms of literature
and art
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Production as follows; the
literature of purely personal experience of the common life of man as man, of the
social world all its different aspects, literature that treat nature and lastly the
literature which treats of literature and art
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First of all, we have the literature of self-expression which includes
different kind of lyric poetry, the poetry of meditation and argument and the
elegy; the essay and treatise attempted from the personal point of view and the
literature of artistic and literary criticism
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Thirdly
we have the description though not a very large or important division and mostly

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subordinated to the interests of self-expression or narrative, compressing of some
minor forms of literary art
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It follows the great
principle that a piece of literature appeals to us only when it recalls into activity
the same powers of sympathy and imagination which went into its making and
this explains the interests these forms have for us
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These elements constitute the raw material of any piece of
literature-poem, essay, drama, and novel
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These essential elements may be grouped under four divisions
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Second is the Emotional Element, the
feeling which the subject arouses in the author and which in turn the author tries
to stimulate in us
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These three
elements combine to furnish the material for literature
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It requires a rhythm, a grammatical
structure, logical sequence, pattern of association and images
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