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ROSSETTI CONTEXT AND CRITICS
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- 1Function of the poem Remember nowCommonly read out at funerals
- 2What happened to Rossetti the year before she wrote Shut Out?Her father died
- 3Victorian fearDeath and being buried alive - they were buried with a bell so they couldn't be buried alive
- 4Ruskin's view on what Rossetti's poetry did"Rossetti was violating the common ear."
- 5Bowra's view on idea of love"The idea of love turned inexorably to the idea of death"
- 6Context - No thank you, John"About John Brett, pre-raphaelite artist who proposed to Rossetti but she refused.
- 7Simon Armitage - No Thank You, John"She is not to be bullied into a relationship because of a man or social convention."
- 8Shut Out - ContextThe Garden imagery mimics that of the Garden of Eden in the genesis creation story
- 9Victorian society - religionRevolved around major revival of religious activity - Bible = literal truth
- 10Rosenbulm, Shut out"the garden is unambiguously edenic"
- 1120th century critics - Goblin Market"Lizzie is the figure of Christ and Laura's saviour"
- 12Simon Avery - women in society"Rossetti examines the woman's place in society through consideration of the institution of marriage."
- 13Cecil Lang - Rossetti's style"Rossetti's style is fantasy crossed with realism."
- 14Simon Avery - purpose of Rossetti's poems"Rossetti's poems encourage women to claim independence and agency."
- 15Event in 1870The Married Women's Property Act, allows married women to own their own property
- 16Angel in the House"Man must be please; but to please is a woman's pleasure."
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