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A future looking back

A future looking back

Denise Levertov’s poem imagines people asking about Vietnamese culture as if it has vanished. Its question-and-answer format resembles an anthropological interview, but the answers reveal that war has made ordinary knowledge about people’s lives difficult to recover.

2.2.9 What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov Lesson

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  2. /English Literature
  3. /2.2.9 What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov

Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 2.2.9 What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.

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