English Literature A-Level
The illusion of free will and choice
What The illusion of free will and choice means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The poem's central irony, in which the speaker invents the significance of an arbitrary decision after the fact, rationalising it to give life meaning.
Topics that use The illusion of free will and choice
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – The Great Modern Poets, editor Michael Schmidt (Quercus, 2014) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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