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Originally Posted by DMB
You obviously didn't understand that in that sort of class all you need to do is to reflect the teacher's prejudices with a bit of embroidery.
When doing English A-level I had a teacher for half the syllabus who did the Romantic poets with us. She was a Wordsworth junkie and at the time I didn't like Wordsworth one bit. But I wrote essays full of technicalities about the verse and admiring the end result and got straight As.  |
I understood that, I just couldn't defend that book. We spent all semester on it and had to write essays in the various literary goodies found in it. I aced those. I can understand why the prose is nicely written and how it includes all sorts of great literary tricks but the characters sucked.
I did get an A in the class. (wink)