Discussion Questions for the Week of 13 October 2004

Students in English and History of Art 151, Brown University, 2004

• Correlations between Rossetti's "Mary's Girlhood" and his two accompanying paintings
• The Message of "Troy Town"
• Rossetti's "The Woodspurge": An Terse Expression of Emotion

"Jenny"

• The Male Voyeur in D.G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
• D.G. Rossetti's "Jenny": Eschewing Thinking for Feeling
• "The Potter's Power over the Clay" 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"

The House of Life

• 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

Related Materials

• Discussion Questions for Paintings and Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Last modified 14 October 2004