English Literature A-Level
Desire and impossibility
What Desire and impossibility means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The lover's longing for the maiden, which can only be met by her blooming from beneath the soil, making fulfilment brief and paradoxical.
Topics that use Desire and impossibility
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Movement – The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, editor Philip Larkin with foreword by Andrew Motion (OUP, 1973) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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