Literature is ART!!! It's also kind of interesting! That’s what I learned this week in AP Lit, that even though I read and interpret literature differently than I interpret art, it’s still something that can be viewed in a more imaginative way than what I previously thought to be true. I’m not the biggest fan of literature, but after this week in class I am going to try harder to notice the artistic elements of literature than I did before. I’d consider myself to be a creative person, and I love art, so when I look at art I think about it much deeper than I consider literature, which explains why I might understand a piece of art better than I can understand the meaning of literature that an author is trying to convey. Also, everyone’s perception of everything is different. Sometimes I forget this and end up feeling like everyone understands something but me, when in reality nobody’s understanding of a piece or art or literature is necessarily right except for the author’s. That being said, my perception of a piece may be totally different to someone else’s perception of a piece, which is totally fine. After this week, I think I’ll have a better understanding and appreciation for the literature that we’re going to read than I did before. When I start to train my mind on how to think about something without just seeing a page with a ton of difficult writing on it, I can actually understand what point an author was trying to communicate by the different poetic elements that they use. Overall, I’m finally beginning to understand how to critically think about literature! Comparing lit to art really helped me to think about it in a more creative way than I previously had, which is how my mind works. I’ve always kind of hated reading and understanding literature, but now that I can better understand it I think that I might actually enjoy it a little bit. Click the link below to read Literature as an Art Form from JournalPulp.com
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