Rossetti Context
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- Created on: 13-05-18 14:39
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- Rossetti
- Religious imagery
- Biblical temptation of the apple and the snake and serpent.
- Eve and women being seen as damned by temptation in Victorian society.
- 'Twice" - Jesus was the one to write in the sand so this is an allude to that teaching.
- 'The Key-Note' - the Robin tried to remove God's thorns and was splashed with blood by doing so.
- the Victorian debate of science vs. religion. How religion always comes out on top in Rossetti's poetry.
- Liturgical language of the Church seen in 'Thread of Life' through devotional singing.
- Biblical temptation of the apple and the snake and serpent.
- Her personal life
- Rossetti was a deeply religious person - Trachtarian
- She never married. Turning down a proposal for being too Catholic and another for not being Catholic enough.
- Rossetti was a deeply religious person - Trachtarian
- She worked with Prostitutes at the Mary Magdalene Home to help them reform their lives.
- Was a large fan of Keats - his natural imagery in her poems.
- Her poetry tells us that she was not truly happy on earth and believed life was waiting for the paradise that is Heaven.
- She was a devout believer, much like her mother and her sister who later became a nun
- Her later work is more reflective of an ode to death.
- She worked with her brothers closely in order to get published.
- Victorian Times
- The Romantics Movement influenced her work. Seen through images of beauty and nature
- Ruskin's hatred of pathetic fallacy and the 'improper' figurative imagery used.
- Victorian flower symbolism. Violets are innocence or lust depending on colour.
- Victorian societies ideals of women and how they are owned by their fathers/husbands.
- Women's Property Act 1882
- Prostitutes were quite common in London at the time.
- Power of genders in Victorian Society. Men over women in ownership and life.
- Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood
- Dante Gabriel and William Rossetti were among the main leaders.
- The natural and detailed arts made were not liked by Ruskin as he deemed them 'unrealistic'
- Dante and Lizzie Siddal and her life of a prostitute and drugs reflected in 'An Artists Studio'.
- William's death is obvious in Rossetti's poetry as his voice takes on some of the poems eg. 'They desire a better country'.
- The PRB aimed to create a natural and symbolic view of the world around them
- Religious imagery
- Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood
- Dante Gabriel and William Rossetti were among the main leaders.
- The natural and detailed arts made were not liked by Ruskin as he deemed them 'unrealistic'
- Dante and Lizzie Siddal and her life of a prostitute and drugs reflected in 'An Artists Studio'.
- William's death is obvious in Rossetti's poetry as his voice takes on some of the poems eg. 'They desire a better country'.
- The PRB aimed to create a natural and symbolic view of the world around them
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