English Literature GCSE
Homesickness and longing
What Homesickness and longing means in English Literature GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Homesickness and longing
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The exiled speaker in Italy longs passionately for an English springtime, and the poem is emotionally charged with this feeling rather than being purely descriptive.
Topics that use Homesickness and longing
- Component 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 - Poetry Anthology: Time and Place (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Alienation
- Anti-pastoral
- Control and restriction in the city
- Encounter with the sublime and mysterious
- Family relationships
- Fear and vulnerability in modern travel
- Human boundary versus the vast power of nature
- Identity and belonging
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