February 13‚ 2011 “Promises Like Pie-Crust” Christina Rossetti’s attitude towards marriage and singleness is clearly demonstrated with her carefully chosen images. She writes flawlessly about the cons of relationships‚ trust‚ and general heartbreak. She writes so well that what she says even applies to things that may have happened in the reader’s life‚ thus giving the poem even more meaning than ever‚ bringing it to a much more personal level. She gives the reader something to connect
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10/22/2012 Analysis of Poem: Promises like Pie Crust Promises are unrealistic constraints. They essentially impose restrictive barriers to dedication and commitment because they tend to break easily and only bring obligation and pressure with the effort to keep such promises. The poem‚ “Promises like Pie Crust” by Christina Rossetti shows this through her negative perspectives toward promises. Such views lead her forsakes relationship. For Rossetti‚ promises break‚ lack liberty‚ and are blind
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Her Life • Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children • Mother- Gabriele Rossetti‚ an Italian patriot who came to London in 1824. • She had one sister‚ Maria‚ and two brothers‚ Dante Gabriel and William. • Brought up as devout Anglo-Catholics. Christina’s elder sister Maria eventually became an Anglican nun. • In 1848 she became engaged to James Collinson‚ a member of her brother’s Pre-Raphaelite circle. (broke it off when he
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Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti was one of the greatest female Victorian poets who connected her personal life and spiritual life. Christina Rossetti is a poet who heavily focuses on different themes within her writing. Two of the major themes that Christina Rossetti has focused on are acceptance of death and love. Within Christina Rossetti’s writing it is very obvious the message that she is trying portray. Remember Me and Baby Lies So Fast Asleep are two poems that apply the themes of
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In A Birt hday by Christina Rossetti‚ vivid descriptions of happiness fill the verse. Some such descriptions are ’a singing bird‚’ ’an apple-tree’ filled with fruit‚ and ’a rainbow shell in a halcyon sea.’ On this birthday‚ love is first experienced. Ms. Rossetti uses lots of description from nature to convey her feelings toward a birthday. She expresses happiness as fullness and as a well-watered tree that sustains life by harbouring a nest in its branches and a tree ready for harvest. A raised
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A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Context Christina Rossetti - Born in 1830‚ known for acerbic (sharp direct and outspoken) love poetry‚ vivacious (attractively lively) ballads (poem in short stanzas) and nursery rhymes. Became a devout Anglo-Catholic when she was about 14. Poem - Written when Rossetti was 27yrs old in 1857 and expresses the tremendous joy and excitement you feel when you meet the one you love. Title - A Birthday; celebration‚ spiritual rebirth‚ ambiguous misleading title
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Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic‚ devotional‚ and children’s poems. Christina Rossetti’s poem creation began in her childhood‚ she with its peculiar women sensitive and delicate as well as to the religious piety‚ create graceful‚ delicate feeling and rich and mysterious religious poetry. Christina is a devout Catholic Britain believers‚ religious belief is the kernel of her life‚ also because of this‚ Christina Rossetti’s
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. The whole poem is composed of imagery‚ used for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. There is also a contrast between the two stanzas. The imagery used in the first stanza draws on familiar natural objects but can also be read with many biblical implications. In the second verse‚ the poet speaks quite materialistically about exotic and royal
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because I recently moved to Virginia from Ohio this year. Much like Christina Rossetti in her poem “Remember”‚ I had to leave my friends behind in Ohio in hopes that they would remember me. In “Remember”‚ Christina Rossetti uses specific elements such as diction‚ metaphor‚ and structure to explore the prospective/wishful desire people experience in hoping their loved one will remember them after they depart. To begin with‚ Rossetti utilizes diction to strengthen her point by relating to the readers
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Christina Rossetti was born December 5th‚ 1830‚ in London‚ United Kingdom. Her father was an Italian poet and a political exile named Gabriele Rossetti. Her mother was half English and half Italian her name was Frances Polidori and they got married in 1826. They had four children‚ Christina is the youngest of the four. She had one sister and two brothers. Maria Francesca‚ who was born in 1827‚ Gabriel Charles Dante born in 1828‚ and William Michael born 1829. Rossetti and her brothers and sisters
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