English Literature A-Level
Pathetic fallacy
What Pathetic fallacy means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Pathetic fallacy
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The landscape is actively personified to reflect the speaker's internal emotional state, projecting passion onto the surroundings.
Topics that use Pathetic fallacy
- 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)
Related terms
- Ageing and mortality
- Alienation and isolation
- Art and objectification
- Authorship and constructed identity
- Distance and proximity
- Divine vs romantic love
- Domesticity and hidden spaces
- emotional paralysis
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