While reading this week's passages, I have realized that literature, poetry, and art can help us relate to people in the past so much more than just what we learn in our history classes. Through these forms, we can understand what these people living years before us felt. We can know that no matter the time, people always feel many emotions, ranging from loneliness to heartbreak to curiosity. Writing is an outlet that is timeless. No matter the time, place, person, or situation, everything can be expressed simply by putting words together. Letters and words and sentences can make you feel worlds closer to someone that you will never meet.
Because of these writings, and the honesty of their authors, we can know that no matter what situations we are in, someone has gone through that too. They felt the same emotions you did, whether it was pure bliss or utter devastation. History lessons could never convey these things. Dates and historical figures teach us nothing about the true lives of people that lived before us. Diaries, poems, articles, and letters let us see more into the past than monuments or presidential portraits.
As a student, I know the lack of appreciation towards literature, but in all reality, it gives us so much more than we could expect if we simply take the time to read, understand, and relate.
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