Christian Rosseti Flashcards

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Critic
Edmund _____

There is in the ____the same struggle between a direct, didactic purpose and purely ______inspiration; the same tendency to _______ poetic thought with pietist or _________ transport; the same occasional gift of _________melody

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Edmund Gosse

There is in the Borg the same struggle between a direct, didactic purpose and purely Romantic inspiration; the same tendency to darken poetic thought with pietist or transcendental transport; the same occasional gift of unsurpassed melody

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From the antique

It’s a ____life it is she said______blank is a _______lot and I _____I were a _____ or better than _____ benig we’re _____

The adverb doubly
The embedded fragment clause it is

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It’s weary life it is she said doubly blank is a woman’s lot and I wish I were a man or better than any being were not

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Context

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1870 and 1883 women’s property act

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Goblin market

“We must not look at _______men,
We must not _____their fruits:

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We must not look at Goblin men
We must not buy their fruit

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Victorian women
Middle /upper _____
Women _______ for rights
Women vote 192__
No education women can’t handle _____
A women who is enjoys sex is ______

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Middle /upper class
Women pushing for rights
Women vote 1928
No education women can’t handle education
A women who is enjoys sex is monstrous

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Rossetti family
Gabriele her father was a _______exile
Christian her mother and her sister were extremely ______. Maria became a ______

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Gabriele her father was a political exile
Christian her mother and her sister were extremely devout. Maria became a nun

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18__8 pre-________brotherhood
Obsessed with women especially the contrast of the _____and ______natures of a woman

Painting have vivid colours with a lot of religious symbolism like a painting of angle ________meeting Mary were Rossetti represents _______in the painting.

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1848 pre-Raphaelites brotherhood

Obsessed with women especially the contrast of the chastity and erotic natures of a woman

Painting have vivid colours with a lot of religious symbolism like a painting of angle Gabriel meeting Mary were Rossetti represents Mary in the painting.

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Goblin market

Maids heard the goblin _____: come buy our ______ fruits, come buy, ________buy

______ Laura chose to linger wondering at each merchant man.
One had a _____ face, One whisked tail
One like a _______

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Maids heard the goblin cry: come buy our orchard fruits, come buy, come buy

Curious Laura chose to linger wondering at each merchant man.
One had a cats face, One whisked tail
One like a wombat

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Goblin market where Laura buys ____with her golden ______

‘Buy from us with a golden _____.’
She ________a precious _________ lock

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Goblin market where Laura buys fruit with her golden hair

Buy from us with a golden curl.’
She clipped a precious golden lock

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Goblin market Lizzie encounter with the Goblins

Barking, mewing ______ , mocking
Tore her _____ and _______her stockings

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Barking, mewing hissing , mocking
Tore her gown and soiled her stockings

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Maude Clare

Out of the ______she followed them
With a ______ step and ______

Lofty” suggests great _____ and therefore her assumed __________. It suggests that Maude Clare was conscious of what will be shown to be her _________ and tried to defy this by flaunting herself. ______ is an archaic word for ________ expression and manner, indicating mood or character.

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Out of the church she followed them
With a lofty step and mien:

Lofty” suggests great height and therefore her assumed superiority. It suggests that Maude Clare was conscious of what will be shown to be her humiliation and tried to defy this by flaunting herself. ‘Mien’ is an archaic word for facial expression and manner, indicating mood or character.

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When I’m dead my dearest

When I’m dead my _________ sing no sad songs for me plant no _______ at my head nor shady cypress _______

Critic Charles petri stated that masculine approval was _________place on women who adopted ________ and weakness. By making in her final moments particularly demands that are contrary to western mourning ______ who the speaker rejects.

Links to ______ insisting that’s Toevald ‘never send her _________ or money’
Thorough the rejection of earthly love both achieve gender independence.

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When I’m dead my dearest sing no sad songs for me plant no roses at my head nor shady cypress tree

Critic Charles petri stated that masculine approval was generally place on women who adopted helplessness and weakness. By making in her final moments particularly demands that are contrary to western mourning rituals who the speaker rejects.

Links to ADH insisting that’s Toevald ‘never send her letters or money’
Thorough the rejection of earthly love both achieve gender independence.

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Maude Clare

Take my share of a fickle _____ / Mine of _____ love / Take it or leave it as you will I was my hands there of

I wash my hand thereof shows mc _______ridding herself of Thomas. The literal cleanliness associated with moral purity is juxtaposed by the immorality linked with the ______women. Given reosettis religious devotion the washing of hands could could relate to ______ Pilate who symbolically washed his after Jesus crucifixion

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Maude Clare

Take my share of a fickle heart / Mine of paltry love / Take it or leave it as you will I was my hands there of

I wash my hand thereof shows mc pro actively ridding herself of Thomas. The literal cleanliness associated with moral purity is juxtaposed by the immorality linked with the fallen women. Given reosettis religious devotion the washing of hands could could relate to Pontus Pilate who symbolically washed his after Jesus crucifixion

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Gilbert and gubar
“If they do not ______like angels they must behave like _________”

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Gilbert and gubar
“If they do not behave like angels they must behave like monsters”

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Serena _____
“Marriage for _________ gain to Rossetti,is comparable to __________”

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Serena Towbridge
“Marriage for financial gain to Rossetti,is comparable to prostitution”

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Sour Louise

“But now the ______ are over of desire , Now ______ and dying embers mock my ______”

The imaging of dust and ashes evokes a funeral service ashes to ______, dust to dust’ Given her aging ____ , the speaker regrettably realises that her desire is spent and _________now. This is similar to Rossetti’s own life the poem was written end of her life. So the poem may reflect her guilt at being a sinner. Similarly in act 3 Nora expresses her ____ that “she has done _________ with her life “

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Sour Louise

“But now the days are over of desire , Now dust and dying embers mock my fire”

The imaging of dust and ashes evokes a funeral service ashes to ashes, dust to dust’ Given her aging body , the speaker regrettably realises that her desire is spent and irrelevant now. This is similar to Rossetti’s own life the poem was written end of her life. So the poem may reflect her guilt at being a sinner. Similarly in act 3 Nora expresses her regret that “she has done nothing with her life “

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relate to poems with the theme of ____________, sexualisation (Twice, Maude Claure)
D. ____________ - ‘in a patriarchal culture, women inevitably experience herself as ___________ and other…must make herself into or __________- to be an alluring object’

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relate to poems with the theme of objectification, sexualisation (Twice, Maude Claure)
D. Rosenblum - ‘in a patriarchal culture, women inevitably experience herself as object and other…must make herself into or pretend to be an alluring object’

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relate to poems which critique society (FtA, Remember, Winter:My Secret)
S._______ - her ‘speakers demonstrate both an awareness if and __________ to those social and political expectations… which potentially leave the __________’

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relate to poems which critique society (FtA, Remember, Winter:My Secret)
S. Avery - her ‘speakers demonstrate both an awareness if and resistance to those social and political expectations… which potentially leave the powerless’

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relate to religion, __________ side of religion (Twice)
V. Woolf - ‘your _________ was a harsh God’

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relate to religion, negative side of religion (Twice)
V. Woolf - ‘your God was a harsh God’

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prelate to poems which show the oppression, silencing of __________ (Twice, Shut Out)
D. ___________ - ‘she became famous for speaking in _________ and oblivion’

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prelate to poems which show the oppression, silencing of women (Twice, Shut Out)
D. Rosenblum - ‘she became famous for speaking in silence and oblivion’

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Rebellion against ______________, finding independence and power in female _________. MC GM
A._______ - ‘Rossetti’s_______ challenge male authority’

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Rebellion against patriarchy, finding independence and power in female support. MC GM
A. Kirby - ‘Rossetti’s women challenge male authority’

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‘They ________ kind and full of _________’
Goblin Market
The voices of the goblins are _________ (form of lying). Their deception is used to ensnare the tempted Laura into their addictive + oppressive trap.

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‘They sounded kind and full of loves’
Goblin Market
The voices of the goblins are deceptive (form of lying). Their deception is used to ensnare the tempted Laura into their addictive + oppressive trap.

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Rossetti’s volunteering
She volunteered at St Mary ____________ Penitentiary for ‘fallen ________’ in Highgate, to reform and ____________prostitutes.

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Rossetti’s volunteering
She volunteered at St Mary Magdelene Penitentiary for ‘fallen women’ in Highgate, to reform and rehabilitate prostitutes.

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The ‘New Woman’
The New Woman typically values self-________ and independence rather than the stereotypically feminine ideal of self-_________. She believes in legal and sexual equality, often remains single because of the difficulty of equality within marriage. A woman who showed any sign of wanting a higher _______ was looked down upon and called the derogatory term ‘blue-_______’. Doctors advised against school because it could cause damaging effects to ___________ making women unmarriageable.

Domesticity context
Coventry

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The ‘New Woman’
The New Woman typically values self-fulfillment and independence rather than the stereotypically feminine ideal of self-sacrifice. She believes in legal and sexual equality, often remains single because of the difficulty of equality within marriage. A woman who showed any sign of wanting a higher education was looked down upon and called the derogatory term ‘blue-stocking’. Doctors advised against school because it could cause damaging effects to ovaries making women unmarriageable.

Domesticity context
Coventry