English Literature A-Level
Class and poverty
What Class and poverty means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Class and poverty
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The subtle modernist awareness of class and urban poverty introduced in the final stanza, where the lovers give apples and money to an old woman selling newspapers.
Topics that use Class and poverty
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – The Great Modern Poets, editor Michael Schmidt (Quercus, 2014) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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