Christina Rosetti was born in London in 1830. She was one of four children‚ her parents were Italian. Her father‚ Gabriele Rosetti was a poet. One of her brothers‚ Dante Gabriele Rosetti was a poet and a painter. She is best represented in poetry by her ballads and mythical religious lyrics. (www.poets.com) In the 1880s‚ She contracted Grave’s disease‚ a thyroid disorder and in 1891‚ Rosetti developed cancer‚ from which she died in London on December 29th‚ 1894. (www.poets.com) The poem‚
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Christina Rossetti was born at 38 Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street)‚ London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori.[1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante became an influential artist and poet‚ and William and Maria both became writers.[1] Christina‚ the youngest‚ was a lively child. She dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write.[2]
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Exploring the Loss of Innocence in Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Cousin Kate’ The poem ‘Cousin Kate” written by Christina Rossetti signifies a story of the speaker which explains what happens to a ‘cottage maiden’ once she has been sullied by a man which consequently leads her to lose her innocence. ‘Cottage maiden’ creates a rural simplistic image of the speaker who has a low status. Due to the Victorian era in which the poem was written it is clear that the poem is based around the fact that women
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"Uphill" by Christina Rossetti "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti is an allegory about life and death. Rossetti is considered one of the finest religious poets of her time and her many spiritual beliefs are conveyed in her poem "Uphill". H.B. de Groot said‚ "Undeniably‚ her strong lyric gifts are often held in check by her moral and theological scruples" (Groot). The dialogue style Rossetti uses mimics the parables told by Jesus in The Bible. In "Overview of Christina (Georgina) Rossetti" one author
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Philosophical and Sociological Approach on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” Christina Rossetti was brought up in a family that encouraged a love for art and literature. This resulted in her drawing and writing poetry from an early age. Her early exposure to literature aided in her becoming an influential Victorian poet that would take part in essential movements in British Literature. Another important aspect that helped shape her writing style was her faith. Rossetti “became intensely involved with the
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devices to steadily increase tension in the reader. Significantly‚ this allows one to reflect on the association between words and their meaning. As pre-Raphaelite visual artists asked themselves what is actually seen—instead of what is imagined—Rossetti asks what is actually written. As a poet‚ she accomplishes this through her EXCESS detail created with the use of repetition‚ alliteration‚ consonance‚ the rhyme scheme‚ and association of words and phrases. However‚ for brevity‚ I will focus on
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In “After Death‚” Christina Rossetti portrays that life has no value until it is taken away: The curtains were half drawn‚ the floor was swept And strewn with rushes‚ rosemary and may Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay‚ Where thro’ the lattice ivy-shadows crept. He leaned above me‚ thinking that I slept And could not hear him; but I heard him say: “Poor child‚ poor child”: and as he turned away Came a deep silence‚ and I knew he wept. He did not touch the shroud‚ or raise the fold That hid my
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‘A birthday’ by Christina Rossetti was written to express her emotions of happiness and new life after finding her true love. The title ‘A birthday’ is ambiguous‚ she does this deliberately to mislead the reader and introduce a new idea to the mean of having a birthday. At first sighting of the title must readers would assume that the poem is based on some one celebrating their birthday; however the actual meaning behind it is she feels reborn and happy after finding the love of her life. By hiding
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How is Marxism presented as a metaphor in Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’? In Goblin Market‚ Rossetti presents Marxism as a metaphor through a number of different characters and through the language used. It could be argued that in the poem there is this idea that consumerism is bad‚ and that we are never satisfied with what we have which is essentially the theory behind Marxist views. An example of this in the poem is that once Laura has had a taste of the fruit she immediately wants
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“Remember” is a sonnet by a poetess of Victorian England‚ Christina Rossetti. The poem was written in 1849 but was first published in 1862 in “Goblin Market and Other Poems” by Rossetti (Petacovic‚ 2009). Rossetti suffered from ill health throughout her life (Shanks‚ 2010); she seemed to be obsessed with her death and therefore wrote several poems (“Song”‚ “The One Certainty”) exploring the theme of death. Christina Rossetti was only 19 when she wrote “Remember”. Scholars believe that the
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