Essay On Literature In English Literature

My first time of learning literature in English was back at my second year at the senior high school in the year 2011. According to the Oxford online dictionaries, literature in English refers to any written or spoken material, especially those of superior or lasting artistic merits (Press, 2010)”. Literature in English was a subject which involved creative imaginations such as poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction. Although I did not study pure literature, I learnt some literary devices and read two literature books and two poems in the course of my study of literature in English. These books were Grief Child written by Lawrence Darmani and In the Chest of a Woman by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe. The poems were, I Have Been A victim by Kojo Gyinaye kyei and Night Rain by J. P Clark.

Elaborating more about these books and poetries, the Grief Child is a story which revolves around a young guy called Adu. Throughout the story, I trailed Adu’s encounter with natural elements of death, which swiped away many of his relatives and this affected the young boy’s life. Also, In the Chest of the Woman is also a novel, which talks about a woman who was determined to see her daughter become a ruler. As a result, she disguised her as a boy from birth and have her lived as such. I had my best quote in

It also helped boast my reading habit due to the different books and poems I read. On my arrival at Ashesi, I made inquiries and I was told that I will be studying a course called Text and Meaning in my second semester which involve analysing text. My first day in the Text and Meaning class, I was very happy because I realised that there was still a second chance for me to continue from where I stopped back at senior high school. I expect that the Text and Meaning class would be as interesting as my literature in English