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What Is The Beauty Of Literature

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The beauty of literature is that it takes everything you think you know and flips it upside down. It was around this time last year when I began contemplating, “should I do literature or English? Is it worth it?” Here's my line of thinking: “If I do English, I can only do English in Year 12. If I do literature, I can either continue or do English in Year 12.”
Will I miss something if I don't choose literature?
After a little thought I decided to go with literature. The main benefit here as far as I was aware was that I'm keeping all the doors open for the future. Thus began my journey. I had no idea what to expect, whether or not I'll pass, or even if I will enjoy it.

The first step was Form and Feeling by Elaine Hamilton and John Livingston, a collection of poems focused on poetic form. It was like dipping your toe in the water to test its temperature. In other words, it was a transition period from English into literature. Yet, it was enough to confuse me. I didn't understand what was so important about a form. Or what appropriating that form meant. Or the significance of the generic conventions of that form. One poem that stays in my memory even today is Wole Soyinka’s free verse ‘Telephone Conversation1’ because of the content and its use of block letters. It was straight forward and blunt.
It was poem that was easy to understand but one that I initially found difficult to explain, especially in relation to form.
The poem flowed like a natural, normal

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