CHRISTINA Flashcards

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Rossetti’s poems encourage . . .

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Rossetti’s poems encourage women to claim independence and agency.

  • Simon Avery (Rossetti’s Aims)
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Resignation to a life of . . .

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Resignation to a life of anonymity and obscurity was not in her nature.

  • Barbara Morden (Rossetti’s Nature)
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Rossetti cannot be characterised as . . .

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Rossetti cannot be characterised as languid and depressed.

  • Barbara Morden (Rossetti’s Character)
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Rossetti had a passionate sense of the . . .

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Rossetti had a passionate sense of the responsibility of life.

  • Fredegond Shove
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A source of inspiration and . . .

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A source of inspiration and of joy.

  • Fredegond Shove
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It is wiser to remain . . .

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It is wiser to remain ignorant than to learn evil… it is better to avoid doubts than to reject them.

  • Rossetti
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Rossetti creates a . . .

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Rossetti creates a rudimentary framework of behaviour in which a heroine might operate.

  • Phillips
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Rossetti’s poems display . . .

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Rossetti’s poems display Augustinian patterns of conversion and confession.

  • Unknown (Link to Religion)
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Her motifs derive from . . .

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Her motifs derive from rural and biblical symbols.

  • Sarah Phillips (Religion, Rossetti’s belief of marriage etc.)
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Rossetti’s poems repeatedly struggle with . . .

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Rossetti’s poems repeatedly struggle with religious doubt, frustration and fear.

  • Avery (Link to Religion, Marriage etc.)
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Mature poetic style, in which pain, loss and resignation are expressed in . . .

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Mature poetic style, in which pain, loss and resignation are expressed in diction and images that strike the reader as simple, perfect and effortless.

  • Poetry Foundation 3 (poetic style)
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Biographers have painted an . . .

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Biographers have painted an overly simplistic portrait of the middle-aged Rossetti as narrowly conservative, recluse and overly pious.

  • Poetry Foundation 5 (middle-aged)
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Typically, Rossetti’s poems evince a . . .

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Typically, Rossetti’s poems evince a concern with individual salvation rather than social reform.

  • Poetry Foundation 6 (salvation)
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A girl that has been plagued by sickness and . . .

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A girl that has been plagued by sickness and the threat of death all her adolescent life would have found the thought of martyrdom comforting.

  • Lars Wallner
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Rossetti’s personas often identify with, and feel ensnared by . . .

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Rossetti’s personas often identify with, and feel ensnared by, the fruitless cycles and frustrating self-contradictions of the natural world.

  • Brad Sullivan
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A powerful tension between control and . . .

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A powerful tension between control and chaos, between self-assertion and self-destruction, creates much of the intensity of her poetry.

  • Brad Sullivan
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There is nothing meek or self-effacing in her . . .

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There is nothing meek or self-effacing in her demand for emotional fulfilment.

  • Pamela Bickley
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The vivid strangeness of her . . .

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The vivid strangeness of her imagery is compelling.

  • Pamela Bickley