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A birthday
A happy poem celebrating the love for an arrival, in first stanza Rossetti compares her heart to an array of things that shows her overwhelming joy. She then lists instructions in the second stanza on how she will pay tribute to her love.
THEMES: love, nature, joy
Echo
Speaker is talking to a deceased lover who visits her in her dreams. In the second stanza she woke from her dream but wishes she woke in heaven. The third stanza she wishes for her lover to keep coming to her in her dreams.
THEMES: death, love, afterlife, grief
Maude Clare
Follows Lord Thomas marriage to Nell. Maude Clare turns up at the wedding, her reputation has been destroyed by him after there sexual romantic relationship earlier on. Maude Clare reflects on there time together. Thomas is unable to say anything. Nell marries him.
THEMES: love, gender, marriage
No, thank you, John
A woman speaks to Man and is rejecting him. She insults him and ends poem with masculine gesture of striking hands.
THEMES: love, rejection, gender
Up hill
The speaker is asking questions to God about the afterlife and what it will be like to get there. They seem concerned and anxious and are seeking reassurance.
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Good Friday
The speaker is watching the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. She is unable to express sorrow whilst other followers sob. She questions herself and her faith and why she can not feel sorrow.
Themes: religious doubt, death, sadness, grief
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Twice
At first the speaker speaks to a lover who rejected her and broke her heart. She has then turned to God and is instead trusting her heart with him.
THEMES: love, religion, rejection, happiness, loss
Song: when i am dead
From perspective of someone who knows there about to die. Tells person not engage in the usual rituals surrounding death and forget about them.
THEMES: death, grief, rituals, afterlife
remember
The poem is from a perspective of someone who is being mourned. They do not wish to be forgotten but is aware that they might be and does not want the person to feel bad if they do.
THEMES: nature, death, love, afterlife
From the antique
A depressing poem. In the first stanza the speaker wishes to be a man, in the second she describes the futileness of being a woman. In the third she contemplates that life would be the same of she died. In the final stanza concludes no one would miss her.
THEMES: death, women, nature
shut out
The speaker has been shut out of there beautiful garden and is now in one not so nice. A shadow less figure keeps the gate, she attempts to bargain with it but it will not respond. The speaker accepts there loss and lonesomeness.
THEMES: loss, grief, religion
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