Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Christiana Rossetti Common Themes and Styles

Identity – Gender identity
Relationships between men and women
Often Direct address is used
Natural imagery – Like other Romantic poets
Emotions - emotional pain
Deals with loss/absence/ lack of
Never married or had children and was isolated
Shy, introvert, cut herself off
Religion
Feminism

Death

Thinking about what will happen after death
 Should we be afraid of death?
Why are people afraid of death?
She had a serious illness – maybe she felt death was close
Exploring her worries about death through poetry, helping her process/deal with it
High mortality rate – death was all around her
What happens in the memory of those left behind after death

She didn’t think her poems would be remembered

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