Literature

The subject matter of literature is something very general such as “human life”. Literature used to express the human life. This statement implies that literatures deal with human activity or experience. Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects, which have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us. It is thus fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language (Hudson, 1960:10). So the subject matter of literature is something is general, such as human life. This is explaining how close literature is, in our daily life.

Through literature, especially poetry, people use to express what they have been through in life or what their idea about future. We will understand some communities based on their record of common literature. This will help us to make a bridge and have contact with people from different background.

The function of literature in education such as :

1.     As stimulate means in a language acquisition

2.     As a media to understanding culture

3.     As a media to motivate the student in absorbing the language expression

4.     As a means of interpretative ability development

5.     As a means of education to become a person as a hole

6.     As a means in developing student’s imagination

7.     As a means to stimulate the student in describing their experiences

8.     As a means to help the students developing their intelligent in learning language

9.     As a means in arising the student awareness the value in society

10.          As a media to stimulate the students gaining tha language skills.

From the text above we will considered to be agree that to read and understand literature means to know and understand the author’s social, cultural, and intellectual background.