Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-95.149.5.49-20160729002848/@comment-26397825-20160927043309

If they're not even going to mention it in highschool, even as a basic 'this is the type of thing you'll cover in University if you go into literature', then it can't be that important overall. I mean, they specifically study Edgar Allen Poe and William Blake whose poems are universally known, but they're apparently considered lesser than this Wasteland poem by T S Elliot?

High schools tend to at least mention stuff that is going to be a little bit important in university, especially in year 11 and 12, when you should be thinking about university. I would think that they would at least mention T S Elliot's Wasteland poem in year 12 as an example of the sorts of things you would be studying in a literature major.