What are the dangers in studying literature? Actually, literature, in any language, is a very sharp and acute subject and it requires ample scopes as well as opportunities to assimilate. Yes, it is the question of assimilation, and not the question of learning by heart or memorising prepared notes for appearing at the exam. The power of imagination, the faculty of creation, and, above all, inventive mind or soul help you make out literature. You realise a very minute theme of literature when you have the heart of feeling the minute. For, the romantics feel the extra-ordinary in the ordinary; and the common in the uncommon. They experience "heart dominates over head." Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and others are not for swallowing, but for digesting and assimilating. You must feel them as they feel in their poetry. It is also absolutely true in the literary piece of every real literature in every age or period.
Matthew Arnold, the intellectual giant of the Victorian Period, says, "Literature is the expression of the best that is known and thought in the world." A noted historian, William J. Long says, "Literature is the expression of life in the words of truth and beau So structural beauty and technical part of various forms of literature are crying need. The ability to observe human life very closely must build up the scope to feel the contents of literature.
There is little scope for the students of H.SC. to acquire minimum knowledge in literature because of the system of syllabus. Consequently, they lack necessary idea or concept of this minute subject. But when they, discerning an outward benefit of doing honours and masters course in English literature, admit themselves into different institutions but lion's share of them drop out before finishing the course like the dead leaves. But it is true that studying it under the National University is so tough that it can be regarded as the instrument of spoiling life. Because proper teaching method and good teachers fall short in the colleges where the students study. They admit themselves here thinking of the demand or present benefit in the job market or not getting chance in the public 'varsities in the subject or in any other subjects. But those who are able to admit themselves in the public universities seldom can attain its proper goal too.
Some are poor and in order to do something in worldly life with any degree in English literature, they choose it. As they desire to get maximum outcome employing minimum industry, they are bent upon notes only and begin to charge as "Sergius'cavalry charge" against canon in Arms and the Man.
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