As I was reading the section “The nature of Literature” the most interesting angle I’ve read so far is Poetry. “Poetry organizes the sound plane of language so as to make it something to reckon with” (pg 29). At first I did m=not understand how poetry can organize the sound but then I’ve realized that poems have a rhythm as well and its rhymes. Poems are useful because it can give a reader a sense of how someone is feeling without actuating writing the specific words down. 

1.During the first ten pages of the chapter of the book, I’ve learned with literature there are many ways it can be categorized and there are many many definitions for it. To me the most important part of literature in the chapter is “ Treating texts as literature” (pg 23). Anything of the sort a play, a poem era story can be literature so in my opinion I think its amazing how anything can be literature like texts. literature is not tied down to one definition, it can be anything thing you read. 

2. The only question that kept coming to mind was “ why does literature have so many categories? “