Christina Rossetti

On In An Artist's Studio

“one face looks out, is the inportance of the picture to the painter. also does not matter the other paintings, he cares for that one. she seets, walks or leans. that means there is more than one picture of her, maneless girl in a green dress, ruby, or opal. A saint , an angel; she is dead, fair as…”

On Maude Clare

“From my understanding, Maude Clare has sex with the Lord and then he marries Nell instead but he still has feelings for Maude Clare, and Nell knows this. The poem has 3 different narrators, and three different points of view in the poem.”

On A Birthday

“The bird singing, the bough bending, the shell floating are all suspended in time. Their fates are precarious, and as literary critic Antony Harrison has argued, “the idealized images of nature that appear in the first stanza carry with them the inevitability of their own destruction.” For the bird…”

On When I am dead, my dearest

“According to me the poem is about how one does not care how things turn out after life is over. Whats important is that we live our lives so we can be remembered. When the poet says-" If thy wilt remember , if thy wilt forget" she is refering to the choice people have when they are alive to do…”

On Cousin Kate

“I have loved this poem since I first read it eight years ago and it remains my favourite poem. Its message's can be understood today as they would have been understood when it was written and which would have been understood long before it was written. A timeless, and in ways, tragic poem that can…”

On Remember

“the first time i read the poem was when i was in univerisity, some afternoon in the englich corner. i was absorbed in an atmosphere of sadness as well as serenity. now i am a father now, my second uncle passed away 11 years ago. he always asked my when i would finish my univesity and when i would…”