LOVE

Question 1

‘The inconstancy of human love….’

Answer 1

‘….is a recurring theme in Rossetti’s poetry’ - Poetry Foundation

Question 2

‘I’ll love him till he loves me best…’

Answer 2

‘…Me best of all Maude Clare’ - Maude Clare

Question 3

‘His bride was like a….’

Answer 3

‘village maid, Maude Clare was like a queen’ - Maude Clare

Question 4

‘For your sake…’

Answer 4

‘I have braved the glen’ - Goblin Market

Question 5

‘You took my heart….’

Answer 5

‘In your hand…’ - Twice

Question 6

‘All that I am…’

Answer 6

‘….I bring, All that I am I give.’ - Twice

Question 7

‘I have desired….’

Answer 7

‘and I have been desired’ - Soeur Louise De La Misericorde

Question 8

‘Now from my heart…’

Answer 8

‘….Love’s deathbed, trickles, trickles’ - Soeur Louise De La Misericorde

Question 9

‘The dross of life…’

Answer 9

‘…of love, of spent desire’ - Soeur Louise De La Misericorde

Question 10

‘Come back to me…’

Answer 10

‘….in my dreams, that I may give… Pulse for pulse, breath for breath’ - Echo

Question 11

Angela Kim - Song

Answer 11

“Not only does the female voice in “Song” articulate indifference towards her supposed beloved, but also the woman seems to feel a sense of happiness in her inability to remember her beloved.”

Question 12

‘Haply I may remember….’

Answer 12

‘and haply may forget’ - Song

Question 13

Cluley - Goblin Market

Answer 13

“this hurried ripening of fruits can be likened to a rush into sexual maturity.”

Question 14

Scholl - sexuality

Answer 14

“On the whole, Rossetti steers away from equating female sexuality with sinfulness”