ROSSETTI POEMS

ECHO

ABOUT

• lost love story in her life 
• a lyric poem=functions like a song 
• usually deal with strong emotions 
• describes a moement in time not a nrrative story 
• longing of a spitrit in heaven for the lover left beginf 
• unuaual as paradise usually associated with peace but instaead the sould 'thirst' for those left behind 

MAIN THEMES

• longing and exlcusion from happiness 

LINKS TO OTHER POEMS 

• SHUT OUT-CANT REACH PARADISE
• GOBLIN MARKET-LIFE THROUGH LOVE

ANALYSIS

• 'COME TO ME IN THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT'-finality of death and echo as there is no one to reply
• 'COME IN THE SPEAKING SILNCE OF A DREA,-anaohora, oxymoron, uncertaianty of what she wants?
• 'EYES AS BRIGHT AS SUNLIGHT ON A STREAM'-similie and pure lyrsicim, eyes and bright=hope and lovers relfceting each pther in sight and youthfulness, accurate visiosn merges beloved and natural environement
• 'WHERE THISRTING LONGING EYES/WATCH THE SLOW DOOR'-emotional depreivation, no security of paradise 
• 'COME BACK TO ME IN DREAMS, THAT I MIGHT GIVE/PULSE FOR PULSE, BREATH FOR BREATH'-give lover life through passion, shorter line=imopataience and excitement maybe ullusion to gods breathing life into adam, rhymic and ****** to modern ears depsite rosetti being a spinster

FROM THE ANTIQUE 

ABOUT

• unfufilled existsnce of women, uncertaintiy of faith anf temporray nature of life
• Whether middle or working class, women regarded loweer than men suited for either domestic drudgery is poor etc or if from higher level socety emotional and not clver=incpabale 

LINKS TO OTHER POEMS 

• MAUDE CLARE-expectations of women
• NO THANKYOU JOHN
• SONG-FINALITY OF DEATH

ANALYSIS

• 'ITS A WEARY LIFE,IT IS, SHE SAID'-she pornoun=universale not in refenrce to herself , begins abrupty and immediatley establishes themes of poem-the undervalue of women 
• 'IT IS' AND 'DOUBY BLANK'-reinforces this
• 'I WISH AND I WISH I WERE A AMN'-desire but pointless 
• 'NOT A BODY AND NOT A SOUL'-idea of nonexistence as preferbale to being 'NOT A SOUL'-religious elemeent-even if she were a soul destined for hevane-no appeal-just wishes didint exist 
• 'NOT SO MUCH AS A GRAIN OF DUST'-dismissive and rejecting of the world , natuarl imahery reinfoerces life pointless whatever element she in DUST=CONNOTATAIONS OF DEATH AS IN TE ANGLICAN BURIAL PARYER ASHES TO ASHSES, DUST TO DUST

REMEMBER

ABOUT

• fear of being forgotten and mournign
• written when…