Week 13

Question 1

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Answer 1

-Poet Laureate of the Victorian era
-To be Victorian means
energy, belief in progress, hierarchies, separate spheres, empire, manners, money!
-Conflicting as working class, women and people of colour argued for their rights to vote even as popular literature might argue for norms of gender and class in a world of change

Question 2

Tennyson’s work - “The Lady of Shallot”

Answer 2

-Rhyme scheme AAAABCCB
Part 1,2 4 stanzas, Part 3, 5 stanzas, Part 4, 6 stanzas
-Women’s place in the home and away from the world/desire
-tower is used as isolation from the world
-The lady’s curse limits her

Question 3

Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

Answer 3

-A later Victorian poet
-“In an Artist’s Studio” questions the relationship between art and life.

Question 4

“In an Artist’s Studio”

Answer 4

-14 lines in iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme is Petrarchan, divided into octave.
-Painter and favourite model
-Love or abuse?
She lives through his work