Rossetti AO5

• "Pleasurable pain" - Soeur Louise de la Misericorde

  Bayley
• "Double or transitional states of being… typically built on a paradox”.

  Rosenblum
• "Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women."

  Palazzo
• "Fantasy crossed with realism."

  Lang
• "The speaker is symbolic of Eve, having been cast out of the Garden of Eden." - Shut Out


  Jones
• "She accepts the state of destitution into which she is cast."


  Gilbert and Gubar
• “Being a woman in Victorian Britain meant that you were doubly judged, by man and by God.”


  Unknown
• “Her religious belief and art were so closely intertwined that it is accurate to understand her poetry as a religious practice.”


  Barton
• “Rossetti’s poetry encourages women to claim independence and agency.”


  Avery
• “Rossetti spent much of her time devoted to the aspect of death.”


  Wallner
• "Rossetti explored the great danger that the Victorian cult of love and marriage posed to the souls of women."


  Flowers