Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Her Life • Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children • Mother- Gabriele Rossetti‚ an Italian patriot who came to London in 1824. • She had one sister‚ Maria‚ and two brothers‚ Dante Gabriel and William. • Brought up as devout Anglo-Catholics. Christina’s elder sister Maria eventually became an Anglican nun. • In 1848 she became engaged to James Collinson‚ a member of her brother’s Pre-Raphaelite circle. (broke it off when he
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Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti was one of the greatest female Victorian poets who connected her personal life and spiritual life. Christina Rossetti is a poet who heavily focuses on different themes within her writing. Two of the major themes that Christina Rossetti has focused on are acceptance of death and love. Within Christina Rossetti’s writing it is very obvious the message that she is trying portray. Remember Me and Baby Lies So Fast Asleep are two poems that apply the themes of
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In A Birt hday by Christina Rossetti‚ vivid descriptions of happiness fill the verse. Some such descriptions are ’a singing bird‚’ ’an apple-tree’ filled with fruit‚ and ’a rainbow shell in a halcyon sea.’ On this birthday‚ love is first experienced. Ms. Rossetti uses lots of description from nature to convey her feelings toward a birthday. She expresses happiness as fullness and as a well-watered tree that sustains life by harbouring a nest in its branches and a tree ready for harvest. A raised
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A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Context Christina Rossetti - Born in 1830‚ known for acerbic (sharp direct and outspoken) love poetry‚ vivacious (attractively lively) ballads (poem in short stanzas) and nursery rhymes. Became a devout Anglo-Catholic when she was about 14. Poem - Written when Rossetti was 27yrs old in 1857 and expresses the tremendous joy and excitement you feel when you meet the one you love. Title - A Birthday; celebration‚ spiritual rebirth‚ ambiguous misleading title
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“A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. The whole poem is composed of imagery‚ used for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. There is also a contrast between the two stanzas. The imagery used in the first stanza draws on familiar natural objects but can also be read with many biblical implications. In the second verse‚ the poet speaks quite materialistically about exotic and royal things. The poet
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like Christina Rossetti in her poem “Remember”‚ I had to leave my friends behind in Ohio in hopes that they would remember me. In “Remember”‚ Christina Rossetti uses specific elements such as diction‚ metaphor‚ and structure to explore the prospective/wishful desire people experience in hoping their loved one will remember them after they depart. To begin with‚ Rossetti utilizes diction to strengthen her point by relating to the readers and forming a connection. By way of example‚ Rossetti writes
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Christina Rossetti was born December 5th‚ 1830‚ in London‚ United Kingdom. Her father was an Italian poet and a political exile named Gabriele Rossetti. Her mother was half English and half Italian her name was Frances Polidori and they got married in 1826. They had four children‚ Christina is the youngest of the four. She had one sister and two brothers. Maria Francesca‚ who was born in 1827‚ Gabriel Charles Dante born in 1828‚ and William Michael born 1829. Rossetti and her brothers and sisters
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Christina Rosetti was born in London in 1830. She was one of four children‚ her parents were Italian. Her father‚ Gabriele Rosetti was a poet. One of her brothers‚ Dante Gabriele Rosetti was a poet and a painter. She is best represented in poetry by her ballads and mythical religious lyrics. (www.poets.com) In the 1880s‚ She contracted Grave’s disease‚ a thyroid disorder and in 1891‚ Rosetti developed cancer‚ from which she died in London on December 29th‚ 1894. (www.poets.com) The poem‚
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"Uphill" by Christina Rossetti "Uphill" by Christina Rossetti is an allegory about life and death. Rossetti is considered one of the finest religious poets of her time and her many spiritual beliefs are conveyed in her poem "Uphill". H.B. de Groot said‚ "Undeniably‚ her strong lyric gifts are often held in check by her moral and theological scruples" (Groot). The dialogue style Rossetti uses mimics the parables told by Jesus in The Bible. In "Overview of Christina (Georgina) Rossetti" one author
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Christina Rossetti was born at 38 Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street)‚ London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori.[1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante became an influential artist and poet‚ and William and Maria both became writers.[1] Christina‚ the youngest‚ was a lively child. She dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write.[2]
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