Do you know how to pronounce the title in Old English? Because I DO! But beyond that.. I can only recite from memory the first six lines of the General Prologue to Canterbury Tales, because I'm me.
My short term memory is the size of a pea.
That being said... Survey courses are the death of me. I hate classes that don't have building block material. That's why I love science and math. Everything (mostly) builds off of the stuff you learn before.. but it's not like that with English.
You learn the base concepts, you know, lit terms like you learn (allegory, alliteration, theme, motif, metaphor) and they help you as you go further in your studies because you have to use them.. and picking one helps with all those analysis papers you write in your base courses... but beyond that.. you just READ EVERYTHING.
British Literature: there are concepts that overlap, but aside from the themes and ideas... I still have 60 poems to be able to identify passages from, a solid 15-20 writers to know... they don't build. They get muddled and very difficult to pick apart.
A Very Stressed Out Pea-Brained English Major
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