Let us now go back to the question we asked earlier (What can we learn from literature?)
and attempt an answer based on our definition. First of all, because literature is concrete and
appeals to our senses, literature can help wake up our senses. It can help us to really look at and
see the things around us. It can help us to really listen and hear, smell, taste and touch. In
Robert Frost’s, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the poet takes a few moments to
appreciate the quiet beauty of a wooded field slowly filling with snow. My wife once mentioned
to a friend as they sat outdoors that the clouds were particularly beautiful that day. Her friend
looked up and said, "Just clouds"--her senses were sleeping. My wife's family, as she grew up,
would often take a few minutes during a rainstorm to simply sit and listen to the sound of the
falling rain. Literature can encourage us in the midst of our frantic twentieth century lives to
slow down. It can teach us to savor our experience, to take in, reflect on and appreciate the
beauty around us. God has given us both our senses and a beautiful world full of “all things
richly to enjoy.” Christ said He came that we might have life, and have it to the full.
Let us now go back to the question we asked earlier (What can we learn from literature?)
and attempt an answer based on our definition. First of all, because literature is concrete and
appeals to our senses, literature can help wake up our senses. It can help us to really look at and
see the things around us. It can help us to really listen and hear, smell, taste and touch. In
Robert Frost’s, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the poet takes a few moments to
appreciate the quiet beauty of a wooded field slowly filling with snow. My wife once mentioned
to a friend as they sat outdoors that the clouds were particularly beautiful that day. Her friend
looked up and said, "Just clouds"--her senses were sleeping. My wife's family, as she grew up,
would often take a few minutes during a rainstorm to simply sit and listen to the sound of the
falling rain. Literature can encourage us in the midst of our frantic twentieth century lives to
slow down. It can teach us to savor our experience, to take in, reflect on and appreciate the
beauty around us. God has given us both our senses and a beautiful world full of “all things
richly to enjoy.” Christ said He came that we might have life, and have it to the full.
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