What is Literature

I am shocked that I hadn’t thought to do this blog sooner. A question I should have answered in the first blog that I ever wrote. Now you must be wondering, what is that question? Well simply put, what is literature?  How do I define literature, what is literature to me? Well my friends that is not a simple question to answer. Because literature is many, many things to me.

Let me start out with the basics, what is literature? Dictionary.com states that literature as “writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas ofpermanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essentialfeatures, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.” Now to a lot of people including me that is an extreme definition of the word. So what is my definition of literature? Well literature is a form of art but in the written or spoken expression. So basically literature is any form of music or poetry or story that has to deal with any situation.

Now the second and harder question to answer how do I see literature, what do I consider literature? What is and isn’t literature to me? Well let’s start with what is literature. Literature is many things to me. Its movies, T.V. shows, video games, poetry, books, essays, etc. let’s just say there are a lot of things I consider literature. But before you even say “why would you even consider movies and T.V. shows, and even video games a form of literature?” I have made blogs tackling all three of those topics all you have to do is look. But for a brief summary, they all have to start from a script, and they all have writing and dialogue and lore, so I don’t get why people do think that they should be considered an art form of literature. Secondly that list is entirely my opinion so it is what I believe.

Now let’s answer a harder question what don’t I consider literature. Anything that can’t be written down and told as a story all on its own. Very simple definition that I am hoping that I don’t have to explain in a later blog post.

Well there you go my definition of what I believe literature is it only took me 55 post to finally figure to do this concept. Well this time I will leave you with a question. What do you believe literature is?