From The Antique Rossetti Flashcards
1
Q
From The Antique: doubly blank
A
Is a womans lot
2
Q
From The Antique: i wish
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And wish i were a man
3
Q
From The Antique: not a body
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And not a soul
4
Q
From The Antique: i should
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Be nothing.
5
Q
From The Antique: none would
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Miss me in all the world FAT
6
Q
FAT: rossetti was economically ‘comfortable’
A
But involved with ‘unfortunate women’
7
Q
FAT: by using ‘she said’
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It distances rossetti from speaker
8
Q
FAT: rossetti believed women should be …
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Respected but not equal politcally
Stems from biblical beliefs
9
Q
FAT: poem seperates body and soul but as theyre both
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Female neither should exist
10
Q
FAT: speakers anger causes her to
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Reject world as meaningless
11
Q
FAT: links to nature
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Short lived and temporary
12
Q
FAT: final ‘fall asleep’ suggests
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Nothingness
