You know what doesn't really grind my gears?

[Zeldy]

Sux4u. Well then it's your own fault that English Lit fails for you. My teacher encourages us to put down our own thoughts, as there is never a right answer.

I absolutely love studying poetry! I've just finished cluster 1, or 2, or whichever cluster includes Vultures and Limbo (LIMBO.. LIKE ME).

Yeah, your teacher. Some of the best teacher's I've had were English teachers, but I've also had an equal amount that give pointless questions. I doubt Manus' attitude is the problem here as you seem to suggest, since I've always been extremely polite with teachers, but when I became too independent in my ideas, and diverged too far from their narrow-minded vision of what I should think, they told me off.

My teacher is like assistant head of English, so really what she does is right, what all these nasty, groggy teachers do is wrong, I always wonder why people like that bother teaching if they just cannot be bothered; It's not a job you can just 'switch off' from. We are a top set group, though and generally those sets do get more advantages as a teacher trust them to not make up ludicrous assumptions about a book cause they assume that we know our stuff.

Sometimes, though, on some books a teacher (atleast my school anyway) actually know exactly what the author/poet meant, and if you stray too far out then obviously they have to stop you, it is an academic subject at the end of the day.

This is all just opinions though. Most people I know thing I am absolutely stupid and crazy for loving English so much. I just find it so easy, which is why I like it because I struggle in pretty much every other subject. Everything is there in front of you, you don't have to remember much.