English Literature A-Level
Global versus personal history
What Global versus personal history means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Global versus personal history
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The contrast between distant catastrophic news and the immediate physical setting of the beach and the speaker's time with his son.
Topics that use Global versus personal history
- Component 3: Poetry – Section A: Post-2000 Poetry – Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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