Beowulf

The first time i heard about Beowulf i was in high school. I watched the movie but i was completely unaware that it has a connection to English literature. Even it was a bit different from the original story that we watched in our class at school, the movie was very impressive. The story is very unique and very exciting, places  and events are different from our world that we live in. When i realize that it was the old English heroic epic poem  in English Literature, i was very surprised and even more amazed about literature. Additionally,  in our class our teacher told us that JRR Tolkien impressed his book Hobbit from Beowulf  it made me think how literature can extend our imagination and made me want to know more about English Literature and books. Now i'm very excited and looking forward to see our next topic in our Literature class.

First Class

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” ( Clare,2010,p.136)  said  Cassandra Clare in one of her bestsellers. As she mentioned the literature's influence on people she was certainly right. The first reason why i'm curious about literature is; it is all about our lives. The day first i met with literature, i realized that it comes from history and we are part of the history as humans.So how the history effected the literature and how the literature effected humans by all means, that was what amazed me this much. A further noteworthy reason i also noticed that the literature has a great effect on language. It is certain that as english language teaching students language has undeniable importance for us. All in all, these are the reasons why i liked literature class and as Fernando Pessoa says;  why i'm willing to enter the the most agreeable way of ignoring life.(Pessoa,2002,p.59)