Rossetti Quotes

Question 1

Goblin market fruit

Answer 1

Plump unpeck’d cherries

Question 2

Goblin market Laura

Answer 2

Like a rush embedded swan

Question 3

Goblin market Lizzie

Answer 3

Try to Force her to eat the fruits

Question 4

GM context Silver

Answer 4

Women aren’t supposed to have an appetite

Question 5

GM misplaced desire

Answer 5

Misplaced desire is a vicious circle for the soul

Question 6

Maude Clare structure?

Answer 6

Ballad form, rhythming couplets

Question 7

Maude Clare description

Answer 7

Like a queen

Question 8

Maude Clare Lilly’s

Answer 8

The Lilly’s are budding now- pre raphaelite

Question 9

MC women competing

Answer 9

What you spurn I’ll wear

Question 10

From the antique title

Answer 10

Suggests this is what life used to be like for women

Question 11

FTA quote

Answer 11

It’s a weary life, it is, she said, generic women’s voice, past tense

Question 12

FTA quote

Answer 12

I wish I were a man, doesn’t identify with own gender

Question 13

FTA themes

Answer 13

Nihilism, absence, not religious, blasphemy?, published after rossettis death

Question 14

Song themes

Answer 14

Love and death

Question 15

Song- CM Bowra claims the poem is about…

Answer 15

Love

Question 16

Song Quotes

Answer 16

Sing no sad songs for me, may remember may forget- they both say, My dearest- ownership, feminism

Question 17

Song themes

Answer 17

Uncertainty, nihilism, absence, inability to love each other due to religion

Question 18

Song- Attitude of total…

Answer 18

Indifference to the male figure

Question 19

Remember structure

Answer 19

Sonnet, ABBA rythme scheme

Question 20

Remember contrasting quotes

Answer 20

Only remember me, better you should forget and smile

Question 21

Echo title

Answer 21

Greek myth, woman with no voice, repetition of fading sound

Question 22

Echo themes

Answer 22

Societal restriction, narcissistic, feminism, physical barrier from love, wants something she can’t have

Question 23

Echo quotes

Answer 23

My love, slow door, come to me, bitter sweat

Question 24

Twice quotes

Answer 24

(Oh my love)- hidden love, o my god- real love, you should speak- submission, it is still unripe

Question 25

Twice themes

Answer 25

Feminism, religion, submission, love, heartbreak, sin

Question 26

Twice structure

Answer 26

1st person personal pro noun ‘my’ in final stanza shows control

Question 27

Shut out quotes

Answer 27

Iron bars, it had been mine, outcast states, outcast by a male spirit, a lark has made a nest- lark symbolic of women a new joy

Question 28

Shut out themes

Answer 28

Religion, entrapment, garden of Eden, feminism, outcast state, gender, society, Eve

Question 29

Up hill quote

Answer 29

They will not keep you waiting, from morn to night

Question 30

Up hill theme

Answer 30

Religion, birth of Christ, questioning format

Question 31

A birthday title

Answer 31

Who’s birthday? Rossetti, Christ

Question 32

A birthday context Avery

Answer 32

The images are similar to a pre-raphaelite painting

Question 33

Birthday quotes

Answer 33

Heart is like an apple tree- garden of Eden, natural imagery, like a rainbow shell- gods promise to Noah, my love is come to me, raise me adais of silk and down- imagery of Jerusalem, the birth of my life has come

Question 34

Birthday themes

Answer 34

Rebirth, religion, joy

Question 35

Birthday gradesaver

Answer 35

About the emotion between nature and the divine- typical of pre-raphaelite, 2nd stanza shows how she’s been lifted above a natural world into a spiritual one

Question 36

Plowman on Rossetti

Answer 36

She stepped away from class barriers to show the female life

Question 37

Rossetti life

Answer 37

Pre raphaelite, work with prostitutes

Question 38

Marsch sees goblin market as

Answer 38

Reflective of her work with prostitutes

Question 39

Avery- rossettis views were

Answer 39

Often questioning

Question 40

Avery on rossettis speakers

Answer 40

They show an awareness and resistance to social expectations

Question 41

She often depicts the...

Answer 41

Consequences attached to worldly pleasures

Question 42

Plowman- Rossetti steps away from

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Class hierarchy to present the inner female experience

Question 43

Marsch- goblin market is representative of

Answer 43

Rossettis work with prostitutes

Question 44

Avery- Rossetti shows resistance to

Answer 44

The expectations of women

Question 45

Rossettis religion is never

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Simple or unquestioning

Question 46

Rossetti depicts the

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Disastrous consequences of being attached to worldly pleasures