Literature

Literature is something that cannot be defined into words. It is very difficult to formulate what is literature. People also find difficulties in classify which one is consider as literature, and which one is not. They have their own reason in classifying literatures. According to Horace definition, literature has two important components, which is sweet and useful.
Sweet means that literature has an entertaining essence, it is something delightful. It means that when you read poetry or novel, it entertains you. After reading this, you feel happy; it gives effect to your emotion.
While, useful means that you can learn something from literature. It means that, after reading literature you get something that benefit for you. In this matter, the benefit that you get from literature is related to your life, your way of thinking, and your way of seeing the world. You can get this benefit by understanding what you have read, not just read but understand the essence of the text. From this point, I can conclude what I have said before about literature. It is not important to know the meaning of literature, but it is important to understand the literature, what I mean is understand the text. As literature is meaningful.
Based on what I have read from Joseph Conrad, I conclude that literature is a picture of our life. It shows happiness, sadness, aspirations, dreams, hope, fear, everything that we feel, what we want, what we are questioning. The artists who create literature help us to learn more about our life and universe. The artists use words, pictures, and many other symbols and combine it. Literature shows the mystery of our life.
We can uncover the mystery of our life by interpreting the literature. Literature also helps us to meditate upon our life, what we have done, what we will do, etc. It also helps us to evaluate our relationship with others, the world, and ourselves. Literature opens our mind, guides us to be critical. It also influences our way of thinking, our way of seeing the world and universe.