GOOD FRIDAY

Question 1

What is the key context/ points about this poem?

Answer 1

• this is a devotional meditation
• Rossetti and her religion
• link to woman hood, the virgin mary and Mary magdelan.
  Could be seen in light of a proverb?
• it was typical for Rossetti to not overcomplicate religion, she wanted to remain true to the text.
• poem is seen as a prayer to respond to the cruxifixction, if you can believe that, you can believe anything.

Question 2

key quotes and their significance?

Answer 2

“I am not a stone and not a sheep”- repeated reference to religion.
“thy cross”
“I, only I”- sense that the speaker is different to those around her, as she is not moved by such events- belief that she is a bad Christian.
the religious images are not evolved by the speaker, “greater than moses”.