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The search for the meaning of literature is wide and may not clear and inevitably it meaning can change over time. Excessively the abstract or general idea of “literature” can also change over time. Many dictionary has been published and the word “literature” concise of many meaning. In the Word Web Pro’s Dictionary alone gave four definition of the word “literature”. The only things that are actually the same with all the definitions are that “literature” is a piece of writing.

In general, most people may have their own ideas of what literature is. Some people nowadays could expect that novels are literature. Likewise, for a student studied literature subject, a long wearisome poem might be literature even though the degree, grade of excellence or worth of each poem is difference based on its content. Consequently, a dramatic performance in stage can also be called literature.

Singularly, literature is shape with words, in written form although not all written off is literature since it can also be in spoken form. Above all, literature might not have any boundaries at all. The literature world may already has influence many of the world’s culture.

“Literature is a creative writing of recognized artistic value.”

(WordNet database, 2019)

The first definition, based from Word Web Pro’s dictionary, literature is a creative writing of recognized artistic value. Creative writing can be any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal writing. Therefore, this kind of works is abruptly satisfying the aesthetic standards of every artistic value. This could be one of the directions to define literature. Such can be proved by looking the variety of genres that already born in the world of literature such as epic, lyric, and dramatic.

“The humanistic study of a body of literature.”

(WordNet database, 2019)

The second definition of literature from the Word Web Pro’s