English Literature A-Level
Visible and invisible pain
What Visible and invisible pain means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The testing of invisible emotional grief against disease, torture, catastrophe and financial pressure, which supply a visible or measurable comparison.
Topics that use Visible and invisible pain
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Movement – The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, editor Philip Larkin with foreword by Andrew Motion (OUP, 1973) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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