Rossetti poems

Question 1

From the Antique - women’s position

Answer 1

“I wish and I wish I were a man”
“Doubly blank in a woman’s lot”

Question 2

From the Antique - nature

Answer 2

“Blossoms bloom in days of old”
“Cherries ripen and wild bees hum”

Question 3

From the Antique - death

Answer 3

“None would miss me in the world”
“I should be nothing, while all the rest would wake and weary and fall asleep”

Question 4

Maude Clare - comparison between women

Answer 4

“His bride was like a village maid, Maude Clare was like a queen”
“I’ll love him until he loves me best, me best of all Maude Clare”

Question 5

Maude Clare - natural imagery

Answer 5

“That day we waded ankle-deep for lilies in the beck”
“Were it fruit, the blossoms were gone, or, were it flowers, the dew”

Question 6

Shut out - imagery

Answer 6

“A shadowless spirit kept the gate”
“Blank and unchanging like the grave”

Question 7

Shut out - nature

Answer 7

“My garden is mine, beneath the sky pied with all flowers bedewed and green”
“For nought is left worth looking at since my delightful land is gone”
“And good they are but not the best; and dear they are, but not so dear”

Question 8

Twice - gender

Answer 8

“Yet a woman’s words are weak you should speak, not I”