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GCSE English Literature · key term
A poem expressing mourning for someone who has died.
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Paper 2
A poem that mourns or reflects on someone who has died.
Revise: Eden RockThe poem can be read as an elegy, but instead of concentrating on illness or death, it recreates their presence through affectionately remembered details.
Paper 2
An expression of grief and praise for someone who has died.
Link methods to their effects, and use literary context, such as the elegy and Rilke’s epigraph, to illuminate particular details.
Include form as well as structure: explain how an ode, elegy, stanza pattern, rhythm or rhyme contributes to meaning.
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A poem expressing sorrow for someone who has died, often reflecting on their life and the meaning of the loss.
A poem of mourning or reflection on death and loss.
A poem expressing grief for someone who has died.
Paper 2
A poem expressing mourning for the dead or for a loss.
Revise: LamentClarke describes this poem as an elegy, a poem of mourning. The title also supplies the idea that completes its repeated openings: each ‘For’ introduces another person, creature or loss being lamented. This makes the poem a sustained act of remembrance.
A poem or piece of writing that mourns someone who has died.
A poem of mourning or reflection on loss, especially someone’s death.
Component 1
A poem that mourns or commemorates someone who has died.
Revise: Drummer HodgeThe poem is an elegy, a poem that mourns or commemorates the dead. Its third-person narrator speaks about Hodge; Hodge himself has no voice. Yet naming him repeatedly gives attention to someone whose burial seems to receive little care.
