English Literature A-Level
Human customs and authority
What Human customs and authority means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The practices people take for granted, together with symbols of religious authority and censorship, which the poem tests to see how natural or reasonable they look once their assumptions are removed.
Topics that use Human customs and authority
- 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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