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Rossetti: Song - Coggle Diagram
Rossetti: Song
AO1: Content
- a series of imperatives for how the lover should act: 'sing, plant, be'
- imagery symbolic of grief and love: 'roses, cypress tree, showers and dewdrops wet'
- 'sing no sad songs for me' - they do not want a conventional funeral or act of remembrance
- begins by addressing the 'dearest' about how to behave when they are dead
- trio of senses 'see, feel, hear' serves as a reminder that earthly bodies will cease
- 'And dreaming through the twilight': ambiguity as to whether it is positive, negative, or in limbo... between death and life (see context: religion)
AO4: comparison to AIH
'to attempt to classify you, Mrs Cheveley, would be an impertinence' (Sir Robert Act I)
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‘Men can be analysed, women…merely adored.’ (Mrs Cheveley Act II)
imploring of how to love one another - perhaps Lady Chiltern imploring for Sir Robert not to kill their love (Act I); Goring imploring Lady Chiltern to allow Robert success (Act IV)
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AO5: Critical views
‘the most persuasive confirmation of proto-feminist values in Rossetti’s poetry is that her characters are given the agency to make their own decisions.’ Alice Kirby
‘Rossetti creates a disorienting fairytale atmosphere that is simultaneously seductive and alienating.’ Dinah Roe
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