Rossetti Quotes Flashcards
Goblin market fruit
Plump unpeck’d cherries
Goblin market Laura
Like a rush embedded swan
Goblin market Lizzie
Try to Force her to eat the fruits
GM context Silver
Women aren’t supposed to have an appetite
GM misplaced desire
Misplaced desire is a vicious circle for the soul
Maude Clare structure?
Ballad form, rhythming couplets
Maude Clare description
Like a queen
Maude Clare Lilly’s
The Lilly’s are budding now- pre raphaelite
MC women competing
What you spurn I’ll wear
From the antique title
Suggests this is what life used to be like for women
FTA quote
It’s a weary life, it is, she said, generic women’s voice, past tense
FTA quote
I wish I were a man, doesn’t identify with own gender
FTA themes
Nihilism, absence, not religious, blasphemy?, published after rossettis death
Song themes
Love and death
Song- CM Bowra claims the poem is about…
Love
Song Quotes
Sing no sad songs for me, may remember may forget- they both say, My dearest- ownership, feminism
Song themes
Uncertainty, nihilism, absence, inability to love each other due to religion
Song- Attitude of total…
Indifference to the male figure