English Literature A-Level
Funeral ritual and material objects
What Funeral ritual and material objects means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Detailed first-person funeral instructions combine practical specificity, anxiety, dark humour and ritual, drawing on different funeral practices without reducing the poem to one settled doctrine.
Topics that use Funeral ritual and material objects
- 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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