Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems: Leading Questions

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Miscellaneous

• Correlations between Rossetti's "Mary's Girlhood" and his two accompanying paintings
• "Mary's Girlhood": Rossetti's Apocryphal Text
• Biblical Typology in D. G. Rossetti's "The Passover in the Holy Family"
• Time and Meaning in "The Staff and the Scrip"
• Art outlasting Empire in "The Burden of Nineveh"
• "For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione (In the Louvre)": "Life Touching Lips with Immortality."
• Allegory at Sunset: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Hill Summit"

"The Blessed Damozel"

• The Spiritual Depths of the Feminine Soul in Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel"
• Parallel Imagery in "The Blessed Damozel"
• Earthly and Divine Desire in "The Blessed Damozel"

"Body's Beauty"

• Dangerous Beauty: Rossetti's Lilith as Image and Poetic Subject
• Rossetti's Lady Lilith: Power and Painting

"Jenny"

• The Male Voyeur in D.G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
• Scenes of Reading in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Jenny"
• D.G. Rossetti's "Jenny": Eschewing Thinking for Feeling
• "The Potter's Power over the Clay" in Rossetti's "Jenny"
• The Riddle of the Sphinx: Honor and Dishonor in Rossetti's "Jenny"

"My Sister's Sleep"

• The Distance of "My Sister's Sleep"
• Sensory Detail and Its Development of Mood in "My Sister's Sleep"
• Silence and Sorrow in 'My Sister's Sleep'

"The Staff and the Scrip"

• Journeying through a World of Strife: Rossetti's "The Staff and the Scrip"

"Troy Town"

• The Message of "Troy Town"
• Uncensored Romantic Desire in "Troy Town"
• Use of Time in Rossetti's "Troy Town" and Yeats' "Leda and the Swan"

The House of Life

• What is Love to Dante Gabriel Rossetti? The House of Life and Female Portraits
• Time and Love in Sonnet VI of D.G. Rossetti's The House of Life
• Questions of the Supreme surrender (Sonnet VII)
• Rhymes and Indentations: Patterns of Meaning in Daniel Gabriel Rossetti's "Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture"
• When Rossetti's Fair Lady Speaks (Sonnet XXXII: "Equal Troth")
• Rossetti's Sonnet 53 from The House of Life

"The Woodspurge"

• Rossetti's "The Woodspurge:" Ironic Unromantic
• Rossetti's "The Woodspurge": A Terse Expression of Emotion

Related Materials

• Discussion Questions for Paintings and Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Last modified 4 March 2008