Rossetti Poems 2023 with verified questions and answers

L.E.L Themes: Love, Religion, Nature About "whose heart is breaking for a little love", arguably creating a private female space, a sisterhood, of female poets. Discussion of hiding the internal pain or want for recognition, by the end religion is the only lie she needs, she will bear the pain of life for the eternal new earth promised by heaven upon death Context: L.E.L = Letitia Elizabeth Landon, female role to be seen as fertile and attractive = if she's emotional she loses respect A Daughter of Eve Themes: Fertility, Sadness About being a fool to arguably lose her virginity and thus her fertility, now wallows in pity Context: Eve being a sinner to God, punish all women who perform her act of temptation, women as undesirable when losing virginity The Thread of Life Themes: Religion, Nature About choosing to mirror Christ rather than nature = religious priority = nature to her represents the opposite of what she is = independent from the world Context: focus on religion to maintain her and keep her going through life Remember Themes: Death, Religion About being happy and remembering positive memories when she is dead rather than be sad Context: Religious context moving through into afterlife is positive and eternal happiness A Castle-Builder's World Themes: Death, Fertility, Religion?, Truth About masking of the truth in a land of emptiness and infertility Context: 'Standing afar off for the fear of her torment' Themes: Religion, Death About fear of this lady that terminated others, punishment for sinning, weakness of men? Context: 'Who hath despised the day of small things?' Themes: Religion, Nature, Fertility About God's love giving power to grow and how beginnings start with small things and innocence that forms a good life for God Context: Empowerment of fertility 'Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive' Themes: Religion, Death, Heaven About hope of heaven contrasting the neg of Earth, dealing with it all for heaven and trusting in God Context: eternal heaven De Profundis Themes: Death, Religion, Hope About hope to finally reach heaven one day Context: Tune me, O Lord, into one harmony Themes: Religion About bearing the temporary pain for God to provide eternal happiness Context: 'Out of the Deep' Themes: Sins, Religion About repenting to God for mercy in order to be forgiven Context: The Queen of Hearts Themes: Love, Lies About never getting this metaphor for love = unfairness, leading to cheating but still never lucky Context: Autumn Violets Themes: Love, Religion About keeping violets for spring and love for youth & Ruth Context: 'They Desire a Better Country' Themes: Religion, Gratitude About questions about death, thankful for the past that brings her to where she is, rise to heaven and it's golden nature Earth / Journey to unknown / Heaven Context: From the Antique Themes: Gender Roles, Death About wanting to be a man or to be dead and the lack of effect her death would have = monotony of life Context: Restrictions of females In an Artist's Studio Themes: Gender Roles About painting of females in the way the man wants them to be = loving them = patriarchy, parasitic Context: Dante her brother and his love for Lizzie Have you forgotten? Themes: Love, Religion About her old partner choosing the darkness, arguably other religion = she is too faithful to her religion to go with him Context: her old fiancés Sweet Death Themes: Death, Religion About how all deaths rise to sky and are good to the earth = be accepted by death Context: Maude Clare Themes: Relationships, Love, Fertility, Gender About the a couple getting married, Old partner Maude Clare comes and tries to bless them = insulting and getting between them = focus on female voice, subverting role of male Context: Winter: My Secret Themes: Truth, Lies, Nature About jest around a secret that she may tell or may not Context: may be nothing in particular = women already are vulnerable = a secret makes her a little less vulnerable A Triad Themes: Love, Gender, Relationships About fate of women being wives, 3 types of women Fallen Woman, Angel of the House, Spinster / 3 parts of the woman - her looks, voice and emotions Context: Sappho Themes: Death, Gender About difference with men and romanticising death Context: Sappho ridiculed by Greeks and medieval monks and they destroyed her poems = all literature usually produced by men No, Thank You, John Themes: Relationships, Gender About one side of the argument = men being cruel and unreasonable = blame women for luring them in Context: a voice for the women in the prostitute house she worked on = frequency of these encounters for women The Greatest of These is Charity Themes: Love, Religion About all other things failing = only charity Context: The Key-Note Themes: Religion About songs of religion leaving her = they come from her heart so she should find them Context: Vigil of St Bartholomew Themes: Religion, About journey to heaven and being aware for God Context: Echo Themes: About calling for God and for heaven and gaining happiness in heaven Context: Goblin Market Themes: Religion, Gender roles, Self Sacrifice About the goblin men tempting women and then never speaking to them further = tainting them and then not wanting them, never being free from the memory = indulging in the intelligence Context: An Apple Gathering Themes: Gender, Fertility, Relationships About losing her virginity therefore her fertility as the man runs away = teased by the other females that have heaps of fertility Context: