Christina rossetti

Attitudes Expressed in the Poem: melancholy (quiet, contemplative sadness) hopeful selfless romantic (love poem?) acceptance -...

The Brotherhood loomed large in the poet’s life, but she was careful to carve out her own creative space

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Christina Rosetti

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites of the 19th century last week, with 30 pieces showing wistful figures in draped clothing often surrounded with flowers. But while the floral touches might seem like colorful accents to us, to Victorians there was a language in the flowers.

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John Brett, ‘Christina Rossetti’ (unfinished), 1857. As regards the portrait’s symbolic meaning, much depends on an interpretation of the prominent feather, beautifully painted with a Ruskinian fidelity to nature (Charles Brett, 2005). Jan Marsh (1994) has suggested this may symbolise a quill representing Christina’s vocation as a writer. While this is possible, it ignores the fact that the work is unfinished and one must try to imagine the completed picture....

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