Language as a prison

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Language is man's most important perceptive devices . Except for rare casos, language is the only means which leads to man's thoughts. Yet at times man's perception is so intricate, complicated and vast that language fails to reflect it, and that is where langugc which used tu release ones ideas from the prison his or mind will yet turnin to another prison confining one's thought. At such moments man has to seek some other ways inorder to escape chains of the language, and resorting to literature is considcres to be one such \Vay. Running away from the Jimitatios imposed by language, the poet or the author turns to literature to convey that part of his perception or emotions language failed to represent. In other words,making use of diffrent litrerary approaches and methals as well destray the manipulatiny the language prison making it possible to express the magniricant mental acuities . The grasp of literature ranges from the tiniest parts of language that is phones (consonants/vowels) to the full range of a literary work.