Rossetti

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"It's not always clear whether or not desire is a terrible thing."
Charlotte Unsworth - Soeur Louise
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"An intriguing poem about what is not said, where the speaker skillfully withholds power and control."
Simon Avery - Winter:My Secret
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"The owner of the 'mask' asserts her right to speak her own thoughts."
Dolores Rosemblum - Winter: My Secret
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"A clear critique of dominant masculinity."
Simon Avery - Maude Clare
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"By reject a potential suitor, the speaker asserts the right to say no."
Simon Avery - No, Thank You, John
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"An allegory of sexual transgression."
Barbara Morden - A Goblin's Market
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"Goblin Market is a literary banquet."
Barbara Morden - A Goblin's Market
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"...The female figure is depicted as entrapped or confined physically, psychologically or both."
Simon Avery
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"Capacity for enjoyment is celebrated in 'A Birthday'
Barbara Morden - A Birthday
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"In some of her most famous poems, Rossetti is obsessed by thoughts of death."
C.M BOWRA
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"Melancholy spirits does not always have to be sad...A Birthdays show imagination 'full of joy'."
Katherine Hinkson - A Birthday
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Rossetti criticises the world she lived in through
Maude Clare, No, Thank You, John
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"Rossetti's gloomy outlook on human love."
Lars Wallner - Shut Out
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"Rossetti's love for God always trumps the love of another human."
Bocher - Twice
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"Rossetti's poems are narrated by a female voice - Reflects how she wants the female voice to be heard."
Isobel Armstromg
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Rossetti's poems reveal that at the 'end of desire is [always] associated with loss or lack of a lover."
Rowanchild - Echo/Sister Louise
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Simon Avery - Winter:My Secret

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"An intriguing poem about what is not said, where the speaker skillfully withholds power and control."

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Dolores Rosemblum - Winter: My Secret

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Simon Avery - Maude Clare

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Simon Avery - No, Thank You, John

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