This document provides in depth annotations of each Rossetti poem in the anthology. There is annotations of language techniques, key context, dramatic lens, etc.
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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Song 3
Remember 4
From The Antique 5
Echo 6
Shut Out 7
In the Round Tower at Jhansi 8
A Birthday 9
Maude Clare 10
Up-Hill 11
No, Thank You John 12
Good Friday 13
Goblin Market 14
Twice 22
Winter: My Secret 23
Soeur Louise De La Misericorde 24
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, farremovedfrom winteremotionally
y
iii
mortalworld whenshewas18
Lovedeath wrote
relationship
Song form calm astable
youcandoallthese
Calledmeter iambictetrameter
thingsbutthedeadwon
experience superlative
directlytoherlovedon
them When I am dead, myy dearest, muchmoresentimental
Fibiancefsinging
aassertive'm
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head, permanentdamage
ritualisticmourning
ttengrass t.n Eti
imperative
Nor shady cypress tree:
inityotdoingtnat
Inange
Be the green above me
CBringsmore depthasadness
life dewdrops wet;
With showers and
modelverb Enaturallanguage natureofdeathGod'sPlan
And if thou wilt, remember,
inevitability
confidence parallelism
condition And if thou wilt, forget.
notinkeepingwithAnglican
notpartoflivingwork
reinforcement
I shall not see the shadows, contextual
inter
I shall not feel the rain; tonto'anightingatemeditating
neat
Romantic
I shall not hear the nightingale Quality
rejection
of splittromongemiambment
afterlife Sing on, as if in pain:
gym q.IM
grieving
7lnbetweeffomimgdaemwam
And dreaming through the twilight
irreversible
couldbealludingtoGreek
Philomela
mythology
metamorphedintoNightingale
toescapewrath
That doth not rise nor set,
Diacope Edisappeared
Haply I may remember,
reparallelismambiguity
And haply may forget.
tastingwith
hewnbelief t Doesn'tknow whatto believeafterdeath
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