Literature is not practical, especially the classic literary works. They are old, and simply relics of time. Certainly they will not help us find a better job or guide us to make more money in the future. But why should we learn it?
Our ancient master Confucius said that a superior man should not be a practical utensil. We read not to make money but to be a better person.
Literature is the record of human history. All human experience in history has been recorded in literature. The sweetest love, the most heartbroken betrayal, the cruelest war, the hardest struggle, the joyful laughter and the miserable cry, the most precious friendship and the most fierce hatred. Reading it makes us a full man.
Literature can make us wise, since we may take good lessons from it. Reading a good book is like talking to a wise man, let alone the great joy that a book may bring to us in loneliness.
Even if you deny these two purposes, how many of you have cited about beautiful love poems in dating?
When standing in front of the shelves of books in English literature, which are the most valuable ones we should digest? Firstly, we need to know who the most important writers are and what their important literary works are. Finally, we need to learn to form our own literary taste, to know what a good literary work is like and what an ordinary one might be. We shall learn to appreciate the literariness of it, the beauty of the language, the wit in the structure, the inspiration of the story and etc.
A. Literature brings us delight.
B. None that you can't find in literature.
C. It seems that literature has no use at all.
D. Reading literature can serve several purposes.
E. Entering the world of literature is like walking into a library.
F. In addition, we should ask which ones we can simply taste or swallow.
G. Secondly, we need to know how the literary works reflect society and the culture.
