What is Literature? Why Study Literature? People often think that literature is just one thing, not knowing that it is composed of several elements that we use in our daily lives. Literature is the foundation of life. It places an emphasis on many topics from human tragedies to tales of the ever popular search for love. While it is physically written in words, literature has the ability to comprehend the complexity, and simplicity of the text that come alive through the imagination. Ultimately, literature has provided a gateway to teach us about life experiences from even the saddest stories of the most joyful ones that will touch our hearts. The infliction of my renewed outlook on literature occurred during my exploration of The Ecco Anthology …show more content…
He came from an artistic family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers. His sister, Violeta Parra, is possibly the most important folk singer the nation has produced. Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician who has been a popular poet in Chile with enormous influence and popularity in Latin America, and considered to be one of the most important poets of the Spanish language literature and known as the father of antipoetry. He describes himself as an antipoet due to his distaste for the standard, traditional poetic structure and function of literature to evoke meanings of interpretation for emotive responses, as he would exclaim with "Me retracto todo lo dicho", or "I Take Back Everything I've Said", the poet lies before a reader asking for forgiveness, begging to burn the author's work, "Before I go I'm supposed to get a last wish: Generous reader, burn this book". In the second stanza the despair of the speaker's tone increases in intensity as a voice that is heard, and a soul that wants you to listen is also indicated on the fifth stanza as he requests for his reader to listen "Maybe that's all I am, but listen to my last word: I take back everything I've said. With the greatest bitterness in the world, I take back everything I've said." Nicanor Parra conveys his poetry by using an art movement that attempts to break away from the normal conventions of traditional poetry while using a tone of mock and humility, the antipoet cultivates himself from the distinguished characteristics of the literary tradition of his own audience as he tries to define the essence of poetry from the outside by encircling it with anti-poetic