Role of Women Applied

• Rossetti frequently explores women’s roles, in particular the double standards of men and women.
• Rossetti considers women‘s own power and authority - where they have the right to say no, and hide themselves to control their own lives. Even if it is not directly relevant, Rossetti writing from a female perspectives means it is present.
• In ‘Song’, Rossetti writes the female response to a cliched view of the silent dead woman grieving the loss of her loved one from the afterlife.
• In Winter: My Secret, the speaker claims authority to tell us what she likes.
• In From the Antique she criticises the poverty of women’s rights and roles.