A05

Question 1

Critical view for Have You Forgotten?

Answer 1

“If this was true love, it was also awkward and often not embarrassed yet not quiet at ease”- Jan Marsh

Question 2

Critical view for Sweet Death

Answer 2

“In Christina love released a melancholy desire for death”- C.M. Bowra

Question 3

Critical view for Remember

Answer 3

“Focus is not on the possibility of fulfilling earthly love, or upon betrayal of love, but rather renunciation”- Anthony Harrison

Question 4

Critical view of From The Antique

Answer 4

“ So ‘weary[ing]’ is the position of women that annihilation is preferable, since this would enable escape from gender, expectations and imposed identities”- Simon Avery

Question 5

Critical view of Echo

Answer 5

“ Rosetti‘s love for God always trumps the love of another human”- Joshua Bocher

Question 6

Critical view for A Triad

Answer 6

“Rosetti‘s belief in the responsibility of women for their own spiritual selves”- Dinah Roe

Question 7

Critical view for “Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive”

Answer 7

“The pervasive theme of vanitas vanitatum”- Jerome J McGann

(vanitas vanitatum=earthly life is empty)

Question 8

Critical view for An Apple Gathering

Answer 8

“ betrayed lovers or betrayed expectations of love is the unattainability of fulfilment”- Anthony Harrison

Question 9

Critical view for Up-Hill

Answer 9

“ The austere, deceptively simple language typically masks, the complexities of religious thought that Rosetti’s poetry often explores”- Simon Avery

Question 10

Critical view for Goblin Market

Answer 10

“ Rossetti has radically rewritten the Fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women”- Lynda Palazzo

Question 11

Critical view of Amor Mundi

Answer 11

“Discomforting praise of patriarchal Christianity” - Dinah Roe