Masculinity
What Masculinity means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The poem explores this through the contrast between the intellectual narrator and the physical workmen, and through failed masculinity and impotence.
The masculine duty the speaker sets against romantic love, presented through the personification of war as a new mistress.
Topics that use Masculinity
- 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)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – Metaphysical Poetry – Metaphysical Poetry, editor Colin Burrow (Penguin, 2006) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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