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When first day I attended literature class, I absolutely didn’t know anything about this stuff, everything seemed to be boring, hard and smell old. I thought I have taken big risk from my choice coz I would deal with poems, novels, and any literature genre that absolutely nothing, nothing because I deal with something that I didn’t know. It’s been three years I’ve been in University and I have changed my mind about it, learn literature is actually learn about culture, it is about history of civilization, and I start to get into it, it is very interesting..
Talking about English, the idea that is firstly come up to our mind is International language or perhaps the picture of Charles prince, Lady Diana or signified of their flag which combines red, blue and white colors. But those are not the point that I would share here, deals with English it means also deals with their language. Concern to that way so literature becomes the media.
English Literature begins with Old English or Anglo-Saxon Literature. English descends from North Germanic Tribes who settled in England from 5th Century A.D. the most famous works in this Period is Beowulf, its kind of Narrative poem who tell story a King’s hall which threatened by a monster called Grendel. Beowulf has been published in Movie in previous years ago; Angelina Jolie is one of the actresses in that movie. Next is Middle English, this period is around 1066-1550. This is the period when English become the official language, the outstanding writer was Chaucer in his work Sir Gawain and the green knight, and he was the father of English Language. This period was time when people was very humble, and have the authority to God. Lets go on into Renaissance around 17th century, well in this time the society was changing in such fundamental way, when world was become much more complex with the whole economic and social change. Civil war was the center issue, it was conflict between old and new, between kings traditional status and authority and new forces who wish to wrest power from the king. This period was also called as Shakespearean era, hmm Shakespeare, who don’t know this name? He was very outstanding writer, and playwright, I have seen some of works such Romeo and Juliet the famous one, and Cleopatra. Romantic Period or 18th Century is the next,here was the period when people do not turn to God as the source of order, they started to find seeing harmony in life where their found in the natural world, it can be seen from the works by Wordsworth, he was having the great stress of imagination. Continuing into Victorian period or 19th Century, here was when people experience what is called ‘religious Doubt’ because there was scientific approvals, thus world begins to seem much more confusing, depressing and even chaotic. But it was the great age of novel, Dickens and Eliot were become the represent among others writers. Then in 20th Century, the structure of Society was totally change, existing of extraordinary creativity in all arts not only poetry and novel but also in music and Painting, the historical event which perceived was First World War. So, that was short history of English Literature.
Literary study also deals with the literary genre. They are Poetry (Lyric, ballad, sonnet and narrative),Prose (legend, myth, fable, fairy tale which can be classified into old prose and then novel, Essay, article is the Modern one), and Drama. From knowing that, we demanded to know about some literary theories by means to express the readers sense of what is happening in a text. They are Post Colonialism, Feminism, Marxism, Reception theory, Reader-response criticism and so on. By doing that we get Literary Criticism which is an activity in critic something with appropriate reasons, we express a reason and judgment of something, how to correlate between text and context, and it can’t be separated with the literary theory as mention above.
Well, English Literature is kind of hard thing isn’t it? For me as not a native speaker, absolutely yes it is. I need to work hard to understand kind of stuff like this, with limited vocabularies, limited understanding of discourse and intellectuality. But it is actually has boarded my thought about society, culture and people civilization. Literary works become historical tracks which recorded our past.
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Dear Diary. Something bad happened today. And Bla…. Bla… bla…
Well people, Have you written like this on your diary every night before you turn to bed? Or are you kind of person who likes writing diary? Hmmm… kinda girl usually do it, and it sounds melancholies, isn’t it? Yeaa whatever it is…
If yes, lets talk about it folks..
Happy, bee in our bonnet, disappoint, embarrass, mad, scare, and sorry feeling we can tore on it. In diary we can talk anything we want, and we become our self, surely diary is a place where can keep ‘It‘ under our hat.
I have been writing diary since I were in elementary school, it usually about my friend profile which called ‘BIODATA’, we fulfilled it with name, time and place of birth or abbrev “TTL”, our favorites band and artists, hobbies, favorites foods and beverages, and etc. moreover, we usually full it with draw something with color pen and also our best picture. Hmmm what a funny moment, unfortunately it was lost and I don’t have it anymore guys...
When I were Junior High School I have one best friend, she was my classmate, and we had one diary called “Buku Curhat Bersama” it was a place for us to share our happy, sad, hate, school, teachers, boys, girl stuffs and so on. It is strange when actually I met her everyday, but we preferred share the story through diary to talk when we met. But it was so fun and funny when I tried to remember it again J
Getting into Senior high school, I have eight best friends, and I had a blast!! We tore all we want to share on our diary, completed it with poems, song lyrics which become our theme songs, and any small little things we usually write it down on it. Such like these are:
“Temen-temen… tau ngga aku lagi ngga punya pulsa nih..”
“Eh… kita ke kantin yuuu, beli cilok gaul..”
“ haha…. Si itu poni nya aneh, kayak Poni domba”
“…etc”
Well Poems commonly become our media to share our flowery, sad and angry feeling, we really got into it and that was my astounding spring chicken. Remember it all, if I had time machine or I had remote time control like Adam Sandler’s has in CLICK movie, I probably want to come back to that moment.
I seriously write my private diary when firstly become a collage, and it is not merely share feeling or something like that, but its totally about “my own world” I write my collage schedule, date line assignment, red-letter day, things to do, things I have done, stuffs that I want to buy, dream lists, little map, memorial place where I have visited with someone special, even nota, movie tickets included on it.
Some people say “There’s nothing useful writing on diary, hell no that sucks…!”, yea maybe that’s probably right but for me writing diary is so fun, it kinda our “Immortal companion”, it will become our historical tracks, all we have in diary is a part of our past, so we can learn from it. Diary is also making us knowing our self better.
It is so exciting find that today there is a media blog like this, it makes writer bend over backwards to share their ideas, opinion that they have.
Let’s write, Go write diary, and go blogging people…!!!! J
