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Studying Literature is what lets us get creative with model stories to go off of when you are writing your own .

It also lets you  paint your own minds' pictures. How cool lis that?

Studying literature requires more than reading literature. When students study literature, they are studying an art form, like painting or music. Think of music, for a minute. Almost everyone enjoys music, but those who have studied music can appreciate it to a much greater extent because they understand what goes into writing and performing a piece of music. And so it is with literature. After studying the various forms of literature (plays, stories, poetry, novels), students begin to recognize literary elements (such as irony and symbolism) and to understand how they contribute to the work. Studying literature will make it possible for you to enjoy what you read to a greater extent because you will understand the artistry that created it.

In reply to #1:I don't think we need to study literature. We are given literature as part of our education, so to some degree we don't have a choice. Though it is up to each individual as to how much one learns from studying it.

      what is literature ? nobody knows what it is ; you can't smell it ,hear it , eat it ,see it or touch it .

      but

      the only sense of the five senses wich can be applied to literature that you can feel it

      by feeling ,it turned to something you can smell it ,hear it ,eat it ,see it ,touch it ,cry at it and laugh with it.

      Literature is the most invisible with the five senses and the most visible with

      Feeling

      Literature is always realistic.

      It is about life .

      It is life when we get involved in it .

      Even if it is legendary ,unbelievible ,and whatever it talks about ,

      It is life because it is created and produced by people from this life

      Human beings

Your discourse gave me such motivation to focus my self toward reading .....I enjoyed every single line that i read.Thank you! :)

Why study literature, or any of the arts (painting, music, etc.)? Literature is just stories. If studying science, math, and computer engineering is, by far, more applicable to practical applications, technology, industry, and so on, it would seem to be a waste of time to study (let alone be forced to study) literature. Not to mention, you're bound to have a better shot at getting a job with a degree in engineering than if you have a degree in the humanities. You can count on life's experiences to educate you about the human condition. Armed with all this practical knowledge, having wasted no time on trivial subjects like reading and writing, poetry, or any philosophically-related field in the arts, you're bound to be much more successful; and certainly less distracted by whimsical pontifications about life. You're also bound to appreciate life a lot less; and you're probably bound to be a bit behind on history and doomed to repeat its mistakes, since knowing history requires reading (you can only get so much from the history channel). You're probably (although not certainly, there are exceptions to every case) also bound to be more intolerant, less profound, less literate, less inspired, and in the grand scheme of things, less moved by the stories of people's lives who are affected, for better or worse, (building schools vs. building bombs), by the useful applications of math and science.