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REVISION NOTES ON "MAUD CLARE" by Rossetti A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Revision notes "Drama and Poetry pre-1900; poetry of Christina Rossetti "Maude Clare"
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A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATUREMaude Clare
Christina Rossetti
Out of the church she followed them
With a lofty step and mien: mien=demeanour
His bride was like a village maid, irony: maid=unmarried
Maude Clare was like a queen. *similes
“Son Thomas, ” his lady mother said,
With smiles, almost with tears: * ambiguity
“May Nell and you but live as true
As we have done for years;
“Your father thirty years ago
Had just your tale to tell;
But he was not so pale as you, *foreshadowing/
something amiss
Nor I so pale as Nell.”
My lord was pale with inward strife, *perturbed by presence of MC
And Nell was pale with pride;
My lord gazed long on pale Maude Clare *anaphora
Or ever he kissed the bride.
“Lo, I have brought my gift, my lord,
Have brought my gift, ” she said:
To bless the hearth, to bless the board,
, To bless the marriage-bed.
“Here’s my half of the golden chain
You wore about your neck,
That day we waded ankle-deep
For lilies in the beck:
“Here’s my half of the faded leaves *broken, no longer whole
We plucked from the budding bough, *suggestion relationship ended early
With feet amongst the lily leaves, -
The lilies are budding now.”
He strove to match her scorn with scorn, *Biblical allusion
He faltered in his place: *weakness
“Lady, ” he said, - “Maude Clare, ” he said, - *caesurae
“Maude Clare, ” – and hid his face.
She turn’d to Nell: “My Lady Nell,
I have a gift for you;
Though, were it fruit, the blooms were gone,
Or, were it flowers, the dew. *indicating he is also ruined
“Take my share of a fickle heart,
Mine of a paltry love:
Take it or leave it as you will,
I wash my hands thereof.”
“And what you leave, ” said Nell, “I’ll take,
And what you spurn, I’ll wear;
For he’s my lord for better and worse,
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