Understanding Literature
The uniqueness of imaginative literature depends on the writer’s ability to use real features to bring ideas that are backed with the truth but have never been presented before. Imaginative literature, however, does not involve using ideas as they appear in the real world. Imagery is essential in creating uniqueness in imaginative writing. For example, William Wordsworth uses comparison to create a beautiful image of London instead of using the pure beauty of nature that would be used by any other writer. The idea behind the choice of words in imaginative literature is the creation of strong memories. One character of imaginative writing is that the nature of different genres changes between traditions. Literary works are based on themes. The occurrence of different themes in literary works varies with time, although some themes occur more repeatedly than others. Themes that keep on occurring in literary works are referred to as conventional themes. Writers, readers, and critics may agree on certain books that are worth reading. Such works that have been agreed upon are called canon literary works. A writer’s challenge comes in when their work is not in the canon and has to work towards making their work qualify for the canon. The Interpretation of literary works is an essential ability that every reader should embrace. The inability to interpret a certain work of literature makes the work irrelevant to the reader. A writer is given the freedom to either make their work easy of challenging to interpret depending on the target group. The final step in the reading of literary works is the evaluation. A reader is expected to make a judgment concerning a particular work of literature after they have read it. Evaluation helps both the writer and other readers to know whether the work has successfully achieved its main objective.