English Literature A-Level
Mortality and the unknown
What Mortality and the unknown means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Mortality and the unknown
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Mortality is presented as a bleak, isolating force, and the ultimate unknowability of what happens when life fades is highlighted by the rhetorical questions in the final stanza.
Topics that use Mortality and the unknown
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Movement – Philip Larkin: The Less Deceived (Faber, 2011) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Art versus Life
- Childhood innocence
- Entrapment
- Female Experience and Sexuality
- Illusion versus reality
- Isolation and alienation
- Isolation and Detachment
- Isolation and vulnerability
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