Nature and the seasons
What Nature and the seasons means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Seasonal imagery in which the husband's absence plunges the speaker into a bitter, emotional winter, while his anticipated return promises the warmth of summer.
The sensory imagery of flora and fauna, such as the elm tree, the chaffinch and the buttercups, that depicts the English springtime.
Topics that use Nature and the seasons
- 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)
- 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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