English Literature A-Level
Isolation and Despair
What Isolation and Despair means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Isolation and Despair
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The scale of the speaker's despair, illustrated through the progression from domestic, earthly imagery to vast, cosmic metaphors.
Topics that use Isolation and Despair
- 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)
Related terms
- Aesthetic Distance
- Alienation
- Alienation and isolation
- Apathy and Indifference
- Art versus Reality
- Care and responsibility
- Child labour and lost innocence
- Childhood innocence
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