one liners ;)

Question 1

the influence of religion

Answer 1

In Rossetti’s poetry, God is always present, is always there — sometimes in the foreground, sometimes in the background.

Question 2

Pre-Raphaelite influence

Answer 2

When observing the paradoxical relations between the revivalist, sacramental, and medievalist concerns of the Pre-Raphaelites on the one hand, and their innovative, avant-garde stylistic tendencies on the other, we can more fully understand the extent to which the work of Christina Rossetti is truly Pre-Raphaelite.

Question 3

Rossetti adapting well-known, established poetic forms

Answer 3

Her intertextual use of traditional forms is often revisionist.

Question 4

The pivotal tension of Rossetti’s existence

Answer 4

the pivotal tension of her existence between aesthetic and moral impulses.

Question 5

reading Goblin Market

Answer 5

any single allegorical reading tends to diminish the poem, which successfully creates its own coherent, although bizarre, world.