Any body else have no motivation to revise for English Literature?

I just hate it so much. It's so boring and useless. How is analysing a poem and making up some ******** about it's meaning going to get me anywhere in life? It's not valued as a skill, the books are boring and the exam is long winded and painful. I don't even know where to start about revising for it and don't know if I should just skip it out and revise the subjects I care about doing well in.

How do you guys feel about english literature and how do you revise for it?

I just hate it so much. It's so boring and useless. How is analysing a poem and making up some ******** about it's meaning going to get me anywhere in life? It's not valued as a skill, the books are boring and the exam is long winded and painful. I don't even know where to start about revising for it and don't know if I should just skip it out and revise the subjects I care about doing well in.

How do you guys feel about english literature and how do you revise for it?

lol! you could same for maths and Pythagoras' theorem

And of course science with the good old "empirical formula"

ok, you're also COMPLETELY wrong about English Lit being useless
English allows us to have more sophisticated ways of thinking. In Love, war, justice, desire, etc.

It allows us to form opinions, discuss, argue and debate them. You don't see yourself doing that in science and maths now, do you?

Instead in Science and Maths I see scientific advancements in medicine, industry, environment and with maths I see myself understanding how things are done in our world: simple things like scaffolding. Pythagoras' theorem is the most useful thing to a scaffolder. Maths is used for banking, accounting, science, construction. Infrastructure of the world.


English Lit: sure, you get to think about love, war and justice, but I don't feel like it affects us too dramatically to be a useful skill.

English Lit increases arguing and debating skills which are useful for lawyers & politicians. So, yeah actually. It does give you useful skills.

Yeah, maths and science is all well and good when it comes to learning new things, don't get me wrong. It takes high intelligence to do well in maths and science, sure. It helps you learn about our world, how it works, again I agree. But you know what science lacks? Emotion. The answer in maths and science is always SPECIFIC. It must ONE thing or ANOTHER.

The beauty of English Lit is that there is no ONE right answer, you're free to give your opinion. Not all subjects allow that. And it is something that people continue to underestimate.
Like, your own opinion is that English Lit isn't useful. Yet, if you look at the Universities' opinions, an English Lit A Level is just as highly respected as a maths or science.

Don't underestimate English, man.

I understand, this is one of the reasons I will be taking A Level politics: I love debating and proposing another viewpoint. I'm fine with the debating, arguing, expressing etc. It's just I'm not fine with how I'm expected to do it. It's hard to debate about something you have no passion for. I'm restricted to talking about some poems and then restricted to talking about a couple of ranch workers in the 1930s. I get the themes of Of Mice and Men, I enjoy talking about the social injustices of the 1930s. I just hate everything else. Poetry is what I consider to be the most dry, tedious and uninspiring type of literature that I am forced to take an exam in.

Honestly, I kind of see where you're coming from with poetry. Expecting to form an attachment and write passionately about some poems you've never seen before in such a short amount of time is tricky.

I, myself, used to hate this part of English myself. I'm okay with it now, though. I'm sure you will be too, if you practise the poem exam questions. I mean, I might not be right here but perhaps you simply dislike poetry because you struggle with it and find you're not good at it? Because that's what I found before with myself.

As for Of Mice And Men, if you get the themes and understand them well; you should be fine. You can just answer the "theme" question when it comes (usually they give you a character or theme essay to answer). Sounds like your sorted for that.

I think poetry is only dry and tedious when you can't RELATE to the poem. I'm sure if you came across some poems you could emphasise with (the exam haiku thread might take your fancy), then you would enjoy them, or at the very least; be able to appreciate them.

lol! you could same for maths and Pythagoras' theorem

And of course science with the good old "empirical formula"

ok, you're also COMPLETELY wrong about English Lit being useless
English allows us to have more sophisticated ways of thinking. In Love, war, justice, desire, etc.

It allows us to form opinions, discuss, argue and debate them. You don't see yourself doing that in science and maths now, do you?

English Lit A Level is just as highly respected as a maths or science.