From The Antique Rossetti Flashcards
From The Antique: doubly blank
Is a womans lot
From The Antique: i wish
And wish i were a man
From The Antique: not a body
And not a soul
From The Antique: i should
Be nothing.
From The Antique: none would
Miss me in all the world FAT
FAT: rossetti was economically ‘comfortable’
But involved with ‘unfortunate women’
FAT: by using ‘she said’
It distances rossetti from speaker
FAT: rossetti believed women should be …
Respected but not equal politcally
Stems from biblical beliefs
FAT: poem seperates body and soul but as theyre both
Female neither should exist
FAT: speakers anger causes her to
Reject world as meaningless
FAT: links to nature
Short lived and temporary
FAT: final ‘fall asleep’ suggests
Nothingness