Helpmeet for him Flashcards
first stanza rhyme
regular rhyme = accentuates normality
“Woman was made for mans delight”
french writer/thinker jean jacques
“for mans delight”
sexual connotations, repetition of preposition “for” = possessiveness
“charm o woman be not afraid”
unclear of the narrator, reassurance, gods demand to not change
“shadow”
metaphor, constantly available, lesser?,women incomplete without men,everyone has shadow, common trope in renaissance poetry
“moon”
antithesis,guidance,chastity, women have to play every role
first stanza last line “woman was made”
refrain
second stanza
co-dependency
rhyme of second stanza
alternate rhyme scheme = complementing sexes
“strength” “weakness” “meek” “might”
paradoxical statements using antonyms
third stanza
celebrates women, traditional to radical ideas
What is used in the third stanza
roundel, line length regular
“world wide”
universality, important, independent
“hope in gloom”
softer sex , not tied to man
“danger in aid”
grace darling saved survivors of shipwreck and rowed boat herself
“tender and faithful, ruddy and white”
emphatic caesura, conventional female beauty
“helpmeet for him”
genesis, archaic word for helpful companion, eve made out of adams ribs , absence of female
What did Rossetti say about men and women
right hand is man left hand is female
What did rossetti believe in
gendered spheres
What did rossetti sign
anti suffrage petition
Where did rossetties aunt work at
with florence nightingale
What was this poem in response to
an editor of an Anglican magazine request to speak out against suffrage
