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Lesson 1WHAT IS LITERATUREwriting for poetry and drama

Subject:Literature

and Creative Writing

Faculty Name:Amol Jadhav

Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

Batch(BA FTNP class of

2017)

Year (FY)

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+What is literature Science and Art as two sides where one deals with

truth, the other one with beauty.

An artist bring different things together and creates a new truth.

Beethoven in his ninth symphony uses chorus that is singing about starry heavens and was accompanied with comic march on bassoons and piccolo

Similarly, several similar or different ideas converge to give birth to a new theme where metaphors, similes, ironies and humors are born.

This exercise of fusion is a kind of artistic expression where it connects with emotion.

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+ “ Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is laid out against the sky,

Like a patient etherized upon a table.”

- T. S. Eliot ( the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock)

“I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze”

- William Wordsworth (daffodils)

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+Artistic Methods

Artistic methods are dictated by the sort of material used for the production of art.

Spatial methods for painting, sculpture and clay

Temporal methods for music, dance, stage performances and Literature (words)

Denotation- a meaning that a words bears in the dictionary

Connotation- a meaning that is gained due to associations with constant practical use in certain references.

Poetry was thus developed through such exploitation of words that conferred certain qualities namely-Epic, Dramatic and Lyric.

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+Literature and English

English, here doesn’t indicate a geography of an European country but a Language

Literature composed in English is by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was born in Ukraine, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature.

Language is a System of sounds made by the vocal organs of a particular group of people, possessing meaning for that group and existing continuously for given period in history

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+Development Dialects and Pronunciations

Pidgins and Jargons

Mythology

First poem written in English ‘Beowolf’

‘King Arthur’ and ‘Holy Bible’

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+ “by a gracious chance I have caught in-

I know it has sent from heavenFrom all other women I have taken away my love:

it has alighted on Alison”

- Songs of Alison

(Love)

“Thou shall be braver, the heart bolderMightier the mood, as our might lessons”

- The battle of Maldon

(Heroic)

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