Christina Rossetti Flashcards
Romantic poetry, according to William Wordsworth, is
‘a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’
Power enables women to achieve what, according to Simon Avery?
‘agency, equality, and self sufficiency’
What does Armstrong say say that Rossetti’s love for God trumps?
Love for another human
Armstrong said that Rossetti is judged by who?
Men and God
Who states that ‘A Birthday’ is not a religious poem?
Lynda Palazzo
What does Rossetti use to represent the blood of Christ in A Birthday?
Grapes and wine
What creature from greek mythology was a nymph who was silenced, linked to Rossetti’s poetry?
Echo
Which poem was composed in 1854 but not published during Rossetti’s lifetime?
From the Antique
Which other poem in the Victorian era expresses weariness like in From the Antique?
Tennyson’s Mariana
What does Simon Avery call the language choices in From the Antique?
austere
Which poem was written during 1859 while Rossetti volunteered at St Mary Magdalene’s Penitentiary?
Goblin Market
What kind of institution was STMMP?
Anglo-Catholic
What does Galt say that Goblin Market is an allegory for?
‘Biblical fall from grace due to an inability to reduce fruit’
What kind of literature are Goblins frequently part of?
Gothic
What does Mrya Reynolds say that Good Friday is a ‘passionate outcry against’?
‘the easy indifference with which man can think of Christ who bore our shame in agony’
When was the Indian Rebellion?
1857
What does Rossetti say about In The Round Tower?
Not historically accurate
What was the original title of Shut Out?
‘What happened to me’
What does Wallner say that Rossetti’s ‘religious ideals’ are in conflict with?
‘inner desire’s’
Who was Souer Louise based on?
French woman Louise de la Valliere who was a mistress
What does the nightingale in Rossetti’s song link to?
Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
What is Keats’ ‘Ode to a nightingale’ about?
Death
What type of sonnet is ‘Remember’
Petrarchan
Where does the Petrarchan sonnet originate from?
Renaissance era
What could the skylark in Rossetti’s Twice link to?
Percy Shelley’s ‘to a skylark’
What type of poet was Percy Shelley?
Romantic
What was the draft title of ‘Winter: My Secret’?
Nonsense
What does Dolores Rosenblum say the secret remains in Winter: My Secret?
‘ambigious’
Who argues that Rossetti has radically rewritten the Fall of Eve and actually, the sin was male gender oppression?
Palazzo
Who argues that female Victorian writers were glorified as saints while simultaneously being dismissed by men?
Tricia Lootens
Who argues that Rossetti is “a poet of nature”, but “not motivated by the same impulses which led to Romantic nature poetry”?
Gisela Honnighausen
Who said that visible things typify things invisible, which links to Honnighausen’s statement that Romantic nature, for Rossetti, often expressed a deeper meaning?
Christina Rossetti
Who argues that woman writer’s job to kill the Angel in the House?
Virginia Woolf
Who suggests the Victorians believe in “distinctive womanhood”, and that there was an “association of morality with women and intellect with men”?
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Who were nostalgic for the past and excited for the future?
The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
What did the pre raphaelite brotherhood have hints of?
romishness / catholicism
What did the pre raphaelite brotherhood want to truthfully represent, according to William Holman Hunt?
nature
Who were inspired by the bible, medieval romances, and Arthurian legends?
The pre raphealite brotherhood
Who in the pre raphaelite brotherhood is associated wit h socialism?
William Morris
How were Rossetti and Dante described by her father in comparison to her brother and sister?
‘two storms’ and ‘two calms’
Who argues that Rossetti’s use of fruit represents both desire and guilt, like in Goblin Market, representing a erotic feeling that mustn’t be indulged?
Jan Marsh
Rossetti: “It is not in me, and therefore, it will never come out of me, to turn to
politics or philanthropy
Rossetti’s personality as a child was “passionate”. How did she describe her self harm?
“seized upon a pair of scissors, and ripped up my arm to vent my wrath.”
William Michael describes her “innate character” as “vivacious, and open to pleasurable impressions”, but he goes on to say that in adulthood she became…?
“quite the contrary”.
Who argues that on the one hand, Rossetti “used the biblical idea of women’s subordination’, while on the other, she “argued for female representation in parliament and spoke out against the sexual exploitation of prostitutes’?
Simon Avery
Rossetti views death as what, according to Fairchild?
Blessed oblivion
What is Rossetti’s view of death as a ‘blessed oblivion’ similar to?
Swinburne’s attacks on Christian beliefs and his poem ‘Garden of Prosperine’
Which poem by George Herbert talked of self restraint?
The Collar
Which poem by Tennyson is inspired by the Chivalric Arthur?
The Lady of Shalott
