English Literature A-Level
Memory and Uncertainty
What Memory and Uncertainty means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Memory and Uncertainty
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The speaker's refusal to define the experience, saying she cannot tell how or what it was, while insisting that it happened.
Topics that use Memory and Uncertainty
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Victorian Period – Christina Rossetti Selected Poems, editor Dinah Roe (Penguin, 2008) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Victorian Period – The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, editor Christopher Ricks (OUP, 2008) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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