English Literature A-Level
Desire and Loss
What Desire and Loss means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Desire and Loss
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The contrast between the speaker's intense desire for connection and the fawn's instinctual fear, ending in the loss of the encounter.
Topics that use Desire and Loss
- 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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