My favourite unit we ever did in high school was in Year 9 and it was on the horror genre. I was initially really apprehensive about it but my English teacher thought it would be interesting to look at unconventional ways horror has been used. We did the Addams Family as one of our texts but the other was an entire focus on Edgar Allan Poe (who since then has been my favourite poet) and his works, including
The Raven and
The Tell-Tale Heart. I fell in love with his writing style and became almost obsessed with his writing. His poems form the basis of the entire Dark Artifices trilogy (and the Shadowhunters series is my biggest guilty pleasure) so I just feel like studying his works was meant to be. I also have a scarf now with
The Raven printed on it that I wear to uni and AN lectures when it's colder
That being said, I don't think an entire composer should really account for my favourite text
I'll have to say
Waiting for Godot was my favourite from my HSC because not only do I love studying plays, but also because we saw a production of it at NIDA right before Trials and it totally blew my mind. It radiates the chaotic energy I love about 20th century literature and although I had lots of issues with Beckett as a composer himself, I really loved studying this text
Interested to see what else people enjoyed!