ROSSETTI CRITICAL QUOTES

Question 1

AVERY

Answer 1

Rossetti’s poems encourage women ‘to claim independence and agency’

Question 2

AVERY (MAUDE CLAIRE)

Answer 2

Maude Clare is ‘a clear critique of dominant masculinity’

Question 3

BICKLEY

Answer 3

There is nothing meek or self-effacing in her demand for emotional fulfilment.

Question 4

Avery religion

Answer 4

Rossetti’s poems repeatedly struggle with religious doubt, frustration and fear.

Question 5

BOCHER

Answer 5

Rossetti’s love for god always trumps the love of another human

Question 6

rossetti as not a feminist

Answer 6

claiming women shouldn’t attend university

Question 7

Skazek

Answer 7

Her women are often - and increasingly so- strong rather than weak

Question 8

gill -contemporary

Answer 8

there are far more suffering than fulfilled women in her poems” “

Question 9

Marsh

Answer 9

unfocused dissatisfaction in the form of sexual frustration

Question 10

Kachur

Answer 10

Tension between Rossettis high Angelican orthodoxy and feminist sensibility

Question 11

Roe

Answer 11

Rossettis god soothes her as much he punishes

Question 12

Backer

Answer 12

Rossetti draws ideas about eves original sin and the spiritual weakness of women to explore female religious guilt