Shut Out By Rossetti

The poem “Shut Out” shows a range of different feelings as to how Rossetti feels about herself, as she has created an emotional connection between her and the readers through the use of first person. The poem reflects her emotions, of her feeling isolated, neglected, and deprived, whether that may be a religious perspective or possibly love. The poet shows us how she was once happy in a place, which she refers to as her garden, and tells us how she has been shut out from it, instantly giving us the idea that she must of done something wrong to be turned away from her garden. She also discusses the difficulty of her making it back into her garden, and through this poem she demonstrates how she deeply feels about her situation.

The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBA, the ‘BB’ is sandwiched in between the As, which is reflective of Rossetti being unable to break free from society’s harsh realities,
When she says “blinded” this could referring to how she feels a sense of neglect of how blind society are, and they don’t acknowledge her emotions and how she feels, she wants someone to save her and help her through her depressive state. Her message could be implying to not turn a blind eye on people, and how ignorant that the society we live in today is as we do very little to help people. The poem “Twice” again can link into this when she says “the corn goes brown”, this could show us how people may only actually recognize or acknowledge your existence when you die as “brown” could be representative of a decaying imagery, it also could express how when she is at the end point and completely ruined, people only seem to realise how she feels isolated and depressed which is why she is “Shut Out”. “Brown” could also be representative of how she is disgusted in how society’s actions are towards helping