Greetings! My name is Jeff Lewis. I am a student from the department of foreign languages and literature at National Chung Cheng University.  I am a person who is addicted to literary works, for I really benefited from reading it. If you ask me why, well, I still remember when I made my very first contact with literature. To be honest, I did not like it in the first place, for the hidden messages embedded in the content were somehow difficult for me to excavate at first glance. However, I fell in love with it as time elapsed. For instance, when I scrutinized through the famous opening lines in the first canto of Dante’s Divine Comedy, I was totally enthralled by it, as I found it corroborated to my life. "Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path". With these words, Dante illustrated his wretched circumstances and his yearning for the salvation of God. I myself too, have wandered off from the straight path of being an obedient student while at young age and had just discovered my hunger for literature. I became lost simultaneously in mentality and spirituality, due to unfamiliarity with the literary field and the strangeness of this rural city. Moreover, from the very first known epic Gilgamesh which teaches us to "carpe diem", to the later Greek dramas that explore through the concepts between "Oikos and Polis", I treasure every moment when indulging myself in the world of western literature, for it is a temporary release from worries and troubles when acquiring new knowledge.

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     In addition, my goals for the following years of my life are to reinforce my overall English abilities, enhance familiarity with literary forms and techniques, and cultivate the ability to put literary texts in practical use, in which I expect myself to be able to combine literature with every nuance of life. I expect this website to be like one of my sharpest shovels for the purpose of clearing the barriers on the road of my English learning journey.

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