Love and devotion
What Love and devotion means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A love that, following the lover's death, is shown to be so absolute that life itself has been rendered meaningless.
The ambiguity of 'my love', which may refer to a romantic partner or a divine presence (Christ).
Topics that use Love and devotion
- 5c. Component 01 – Drama and poetry pre-1900 selected poems - Christina Rossetti – Selected Poems (OCR A-Level)
- 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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