English Literature A-Level
Spiritual decay
What Spiritual decay means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Spiritual decay
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The spiritual emptiness of lust that Eliot explores in the modern intimacy depicted in this section.
Topics that use Spiritual decay
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – T S Eliot: Selected Poems (Faber, 2009) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Ageing and decay
- Breakdown of communication
- Class disparity
- Cultural fragmentation
- Death and mortality
- Dissociation of sensibility
- Intellect versus physicality
- Modern alienation
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