OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Paper 2
Revise: VergissmeinnichtThe dead man is ‘abased, and seeming to have paid’ (line 14). ‘Abased’ means humiliated or brought low. ‘Paid’ presents death as if it were repayment for his attack.
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GCSE English Literature · key term
Humiliated or brought low; in Douglas’s poem, the word describes the fallen enemy’s loss of dignity.
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Paper 2
Revise: VergissmeinnichtThe dead man is ‘abased, and seeming to have paid’ (line 14). ‘Abased’ means humiliated or brought low. ‘Paid’ presents death as if it were repayment for his attack.
Part (b): Learn short quotations alongside their uses: ‘abased’ for humiliation, ‘mocked at by his own equipment’ for personification, and ‘the burst stomach like a cave’ for the destruction of the human body.
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