A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Context Christina Rossetti - Born in 1830‚ known for acerbic (sharp direct and outspoken) love poetry‚ vivacious (attractively lively) ballads (poem in short stanzas) and nursery rhymes. Became a devout Anglo-Catholic when she was about 14. Poem - Written when Rossetti was 27yrs old in 1857 and expresses the tremendous joy and excitement you feel when you meet the one you love. Title - A Birthday; celebration‚ spiritual rebirth‚ ambiguous misleading title
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undergo several difficulties‚ namely her father’s and her own illnesses. Her father becoming virtually invalid‚ the Rossetti family suffered from an economic downturn. Frances resumed her governor post‚ and both Maria and William began employment too. Christina remained at home looking after her convalescent progenitor‚ while Dante continued consecrated to his artistic creations. Such events played a decisive role since she decided afterwards to adopt the Anglo Catholic movement‚ together with her mother
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In A Birt hday by Christina Rossetti‚ vivid descriptions of happiness fill the verse. Some such descriptions are ’a singing bird‚’ ’an apple-tree’ filled with fruit‚ and ’a rainbow shell in a halcyon sea.’ On this birthday‚ love is first experienced. Ms. Rossetti uses lots of description from nature to convey her feelings toward a birthday. She expresses happiness as fullness and as a well-watered tree that sustains life by harbouring a nest in its branches and a tree ready for harvest. A raised
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Christina Rosetti was born in London in 1830. She was one of four children‚ her parents were Italian. Her father‚ Gabriele Rosetti was a poet. One of her brothers‚ Dante Gabriele Rosetti was a poet and a painter. She is best represented in poetry by her ballads and mythical religious lyrics. (www.poets.com) In the 1880s‚ She contracted Grave’s disease‚ a thyroid disorder and in 1891‚ Rosetti developed cancer‚ from which she died in London on December 29th‚ 1894. (www.poets.com) The poem‚
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Christina Rossetti’s ‘Song’: Death and grief. Love and tragic loss are key themes of the Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature movement‚ and ‘Song’ combines the two beautifully in a way that neither glorifies nor portrays a detrimental idea of death and the outcomes it brings. Rossetti uses a variety of natural imagery to beautify the idea of life. She tells the reader to ‘plant no roses at my head’ where the symbol of the ‘rose’ embodies the theme of love‚ which was key in such a Romantic Era
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A Birthday – Christina Rossetti STRUCTURE: 2 stanzas of equal length (8 verses). Presented in the same manner: indentations. In the first stanza‚ each pair of verses constitutes mini-stanzas that are marked by the indentation of the second line. This makes the anaphora of “My heart” more visible to the eye. The author wants to make it clear that the subject is love. It has a structure that reminds love hymns‚ with its regular ABCB rhyme scheme. The anaphora of “My heart” and repetition of “my love
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. The whole poem is composed of imagery‚ used for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. There is also a contrast between the two stanzas. The imagery used in the first stanza draws on familiar natural objects but can also be read with many biblical implications. In the second verse‚ the poet speaks quite materialistically about exotic and royal
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