Structure - The World

• 'The World' uses Anaphora ('By Day'), this draws attention to the disparity between the world’s idealised, virginal beauty and its monstrous, sinful nature revealed by night, reflecting the Madonna-whore complex - By presenting the world as an alluring, pure figure in the daylight, Rossetti taps into Victorian cultural anxieties about female sexuality and purity - The shift from this virtuous portrayal to a horrific, demonic image at night underscores the binary thinking that separates women into either the pure, motherly figure or the corrupted, sinful one, aligning with this deeply ingrained societal duality
• 'The World' uses Anaphora ('By Day'), reinforces the illusion of purity and temptation that the world presents, with the repetition acting as a constant reminder of its deceptive nature - During the day, the world seems harmless, offering the speaker "ripe fruits" and "sweet flowers" as symbols of innocence and desire - This repetition emphasizes how the world actively lures individuals into a false sense of security, masking the malevolent truth that emerges once the day ends
• 'The World' uses Anaphora ('By Day'), this represents the cyclical nature of the world's seductive appeal, where each new day brings renewed promises of satisfaction and beauty - The rhythm of the repetition mirrors the ongoing pattern of temptation and fall, suggesting that the world consistently entices the speaker into sin, only to reveal its true nature once darkness falls - This structural technique highlights the relentlessness of worldly allure, which never ceases to draw individuals into its grip
• 'The World' uses Anaphora ('By Day'), this accentuates the dual nature of the world, divided between the surface beauty of earthly pleasures and the hidden corruption beneath - The repetition underscores the stark contrast between the bright, seductive world in the daylight and the horrifying, monstrous world revealed in the night - This duality reflects the tension between outward appearances and inner truth, suggesting that the world’s allure is deceptive, luring individuals into false security
• 'The World' uses Anaphora ('By Day'), this introduces the world’s pleasing and appealing qualities highlights how societal expectations often demand women conform to ideals of gentleness, grace, and maternal purity, which are only one side of the female experience - The repetition of this phrase can also be read as a commentary on the way society’s idealisation of women masks their complexity and reality, reducing them to a one-dimensional, saintly figure during the “day” while denying the darker aspects of female experience - This interpretation suggests that Rossetti critiques how society projects purity onto women, only to expose their ‘true’ selves as monstrous or flawed once the mask of virtue is removed
• 'The World' uses Anaphora ('By Day'), this reflects the repetitive, ritualistic nature of religious structure, which seeks to impose order and discipline onto the chaos of human desires and spiritual disorder - Religion, much like the repetition of "By day," attempts to present a controlled and morally upright image of the world, offering promises of purity and salvation through rigid codes of behaviour - However, the very need for such a structure - reflected in the constant return of the phrase - suggests that the world itself is in a state of disorder, as the speaker is continuously caught in a cycle of temptation and moral conflict, hinting at the instability that religion strives to curb but can never fully resolve