Essays on Literary Genres

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The Poet and The Narrator in Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander

4 pages / 1811 words

In Christopher Marlowe's narrative poem Hero and Leander, a major obstacle confronts the reader in the form of attempting to separate the narrative voice of the poet Marlowe from that which W.L. Godshalk calls "the sensibility of a dramatized narrator. . . who stands between...

Poetry

3137

The ‘ideal’ in Campion and Marlowe

2 pages / 777 words

Thomas Campion and Christopher Marlowe have explored the concept of ‘the ideal’ in ‘A Man of Life Upright’ and ‘Come Live with me, and be my Love,’ respectively. Campion delves into the idea that a man may be more content in life by upholding strong...

Poetry

3138

Central Themes of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply

2 pages / 952 words

‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ is a kind of peaceful lyric created by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. This sonnet involves shepherds and country life. This ballad was written in a shepherd’s field or settings. The data given is about the speaker...

Poetry

3139

Examining The Voice of Negation in a Close Reading of "Goblin Market"

2 pages / 1022 words

Christina Rossetti’s poems were viewed as moral pieces, especially in comparison to her brother Dante’s sensual and even sexual poetry. However, Rossetti’s poetry is demonstrative of the Victorian mindset in that, it is not simply dutiful and preaching. Rossetti’s poems, like the Victorians, are full...

Christina Rossetti Poetry Voice

3140

Despair in ‘from The Antique’

3 pages / 1275 words

Despair is a very common theme in many of Rossetti’s poems and is particularly important to her poem, ‘From the Antique’. It is typical of her attitude towards despair, since Rossetti appears to be having a moral dilemma between her religious fanaticism and her desire...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

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The Clear Value of Romantic Love: "Soeur Louise De La Misericorde," "Twice," and Other Poems

2 pages / 1062 words

The idea of romantic love being presented as invariably negative in 19th century literature is questionable to some extent. Romantic love is often characterised as being damaging and hurtful in Rossetti’s poetry through the contrast with divine love in poems such as ‘Soeur Louise de...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3142

Poetry of Protest: an Exploration of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins

6 pages / 2634 words

It is not difficult to see the parallels in the lives and works of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Both poets suffered bouts of depression, both were involved in the Tractarian movement – with Hopkins converting to Roman Catholicism and Rossetti remaining High Anglican...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3143

From Objectified to Deified: an Exploration of Self in "Goblin Market"

3 pages / 1437 words

A torrid lesbian love affair. An acerbic commentary on the commercialization of sex. A dire struggle between physical temptation and spiritual good. A child’s nursery rhyme. “Goblin Market” encompasses a wealth of interpretations, some of which smoothly blending together, others remaining diametrically opposed. It symbolizes...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

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Christina Rossetti's Attitudes Towards Death in "Song" and "Remember"

3 pages / 1318 words

In both ‘Song’ and ‘Remember’, Rossetti articulates several different attitudes towards death, avoiding any one set approach. In ‘Song’, she uses techniques involving the structure and tone of the poem to communicate that she is in fact happy to be out of the relationship. However,...

Christina Rossetti Literature Review Poetry

3145

Body as Commodity: Gendered Markets in Rossetti’s "Goblin Market"

7 pages / 2958 words

Thomas Richards, in his 1990 critical exposition, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914, states: “In the mid-nineteenth century the commodity became the living letter of the law of supply and demand. It literally came alive.”(Richards, 2) The “commodity” adopts a corporeal...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3146

Discussion of Rossetti’s Poetry: ‘remember’, ‘a Birthday’, and ‘amor Mundi’

2 pages / 1032 words

Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Remember’ is a 14-line sonnet that explores the ideas of loss, grief, and separation. As often observed in her poetry, strong visual imagery alluding to the concepts of life, death, beginning and end, is elicited through her use of linguistic and structural...

Birthday Christina Rossetti Poetry

3147

The Humbling of Humanity Through Extraterrestrial Intervention: an Unlikely Utopia in "Childhood’s End"

2 pages / 958 words

When the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End descend over mankind, humanity is immediately awestruck and completely humbled by their scientific and technological prowess. As the Overlords become more active in human society and affairs, their intelligence and pure ability to easily accomplish...

Science Fiction Utopia

3148

Freud in The Goblin’s Glen

5 pages / 2151 words

Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market beautifully illustrates sin and sacrifice in the lives of twin sisters Lizzie and Laura. These sisters are so alike and separate they can be likened to the ying and yang. It has been argued that they are one person split in...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3149

Erotic Undertones in "Goblin Market"

4 pages / 1676 words

Christina Rossetti grew up among a family of skilled writers and artists whose muses had to do with contemporary life and past scholarship, yet they were strictly evangelical Christians. Christina Rossetti strictly followed the expectations of this ideal (Everett). There has been much conjecture that...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3150

Sexuality and Mortality in "The Round Tower at Jhansi," "A Birthday," and Other Poems

4 pages / 1663 words

Most of Rossetti’s poetry has links to the concerns of love and passion, with some displaying it as enjoyable if not exciting. However, on the other hand much of her writing condemns passion, making links to religious texts such as in “Soeur Louise de la...

Birthday Christina Rossetti Poetry

3151

Subverting Romance and Sexuality in "Goblin Market" and "No, Thank You, John"

4 pages / 1719 words

In Literary Theory: The Basics, H. Bertens asserts that even in the works of culturally and sexually liberal male writers such as D.H Lawrence and Henry Miller, male characters are “denigrating, exploitative, and repressive in their relations with women.” In the poems Goblin Market and...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3152

The Human Body as a Site of Traumatic Narrative in Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane’s Civil War Stories

6 pages / 2546 words

One of the more impactful means by which the experience of war is recreated for a civilian audience is through the illustration of the human body, with lived experience and relevant literature illustrating war as an entity so powerful that it physically brands trauma onto...

Civil War Short Story The Red Badge of Courage

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An Understanding of Rossetti’s Methods and Concerns in "Promises Like Piecrust"

3 pages / 1587 words

“Promises like Piecrust” by Christina Rossetti relates a narrative between a speaker and beloved in regards to the other’s romantic attraction towards the speaker. The title of the poem is taken from the expression ‘Promises are like pie crust, they are made to be broken’,...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

3154

Chaucer’s Dream Poetry in Context

2 pages / 1007 words

In Chaucer’s three dream poems, “The Book of the Duchess“, “The Parliament of Fowles” and the unfinished “House of Fame”, universal issues such as love are explored by a narrator recounting a dream. Writing that incorporated dreams was popular in Medieval England as it allowed...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry