In other words, he tries to make sense out of life. He reflects on the meaning of life. Literature not only asks these questions in a searching and eloquent way, but also provides us with a wide variety of possible answers. The controlling purpose of history is to record or reconstruct human life. The controlling pur-pose of literature is to simplify, clarify, deepen and focus, e. g. to interpret human life.
Poetry makes the deeds of past heroes more clear and vivid and so more memorable.
So far we have said that literature is an interpretive presentation of human experience. But our definition is not quite complete. The essence of all art and beauty is form or order. Art, by definition, is not the product of chance, but of intelligent creativity. In a painting art takes a visual form.