English Literature GCSE
Social and political change
What Social and political change means in English Literature GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Social and political change
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The poem uses place to explore social change, contrasting the speaker's anger and the physical decay of the place with the wealth and exclusivity of those who now use it.
Topics that use Social and political change
- 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
- Homesickness and longing
- Human boundary versus the vast power of nature
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