Rossetti poetry ~ critics Flashcards
No Thank You John
Gaynell Galt
Rossetti effortlessly and sharply convinces her audience that she is a woman whom the conventions of society could not shake, she had her own agenda
In The Round Tower At Jhansi
Suzanne Williams
Rossetti creates a very conventional pairing. The husband is protector, and the wife is infantilised.
When I am Dead, My Dearest
Angela Kim
Not the Victorian view of selflessness instead invokes feelings of growing indifference towards her partner. The woman seems to feel a sense of happiness in her inability to remember her beloved.
Soeur Louise
John Conley
She had abandoned the court in favor of the convent
Echo
Landow
The notion of complete indifference on which Rossetti ends this poem is particularly shocking
Winter my secret
Dinah Roe
The entire poem is a verbal strip tease. she reveals gradually, teasingly, and then uses the final provocative ‘‘guess’’
A Birthday
Dombrowski
Rossetti’s poems try to resolve or control an underlying tension by examining the destructive conflict of opposites
Twice
Wallner
Being a woman in Victorian Britain meant you were doubly judged by both men and god.
Shut Out
Lars Wallner
This childish tone represents, a sense of self deprivation, of the speaker humbling herself to the spirit, or a sense of deserving this loss inflicted upon her.
Maude Clare
Bocher
Rosetti certainly does not objectify women by any means, much like how she does not objectify men.
Remember
Harrison
Focus is not on the possibility of fulfilling earthly love, or upon betrayed in love, but rather renunciation
From The Antique
Simon Avery
Opens with an unflinching expression of despair, annihilation is preferable since this would enable escape.
Goblin Market
Maria Frawley
Her poem is at once a study of sisterhood and the fruits of a culture of commerce.
Goblin Market
Maria Frawley
Goblin Market subverts the traditional narrative of the fallen women through the redemptive efforts of her sister.
a cautionary tale designed to quell female desires.
Goblin Market
Gilbert & Gubar
Once she has lost her virginity she is valueless and not worth more seduction.
