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What are your thoughts on this poem, /lit/?

A Daughter of Eve by Christina Rossetti

Yesterday's poem >>19800567

>> No.19806539
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19806539

>Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".
>Rossetti's popularity in her lifetime did not approach that of her contemporary Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but her standing remained strong after her death. Her popularity faded in the early 20th century in the wake of Modernism, but scholars began to explore Freudian themes in her work, such as religious and sexual repression, reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry. Academics studying her work in the 1970s saw beyond the lyrical sweetness to her mastery of prosody and versification. Feminists held her as symbol of constrained female genius and a leader among 19th-century poets. Her writings strongly influenced writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Jennings, and Philip Larkin. The critic Basil de Sélincourt called her "all but our greatest woman poet... incomparably our greatest craftswoman... probably in the first twelve of the masters of English verse."

>> No.19806541

No one cares.

>> No.19806550

>>19806536
sexy

>> No.19806555

stop making low efforth threads

>> No.19806876

Bump

>> No.19806883

boring poem. post something more modern tomorrow. imagists.

>> No.19807122

>>19806536
>>19806536
I had to do Rossetti for my A-Levels and just like with basically any piece of literature you have to read in school I fuckin hated it, but I actually like this one quite a bit

>> No.19807144

>>19807122
>asically any piece of literature you have to read in school I fuckin hated it
Why is school like this?

>> No.19807338

This is a poem about wasting your youth, right? Lots of anons on /lit/ can relate to this.

>> No.19807363

>>19807338
No, it's a lady who lost her virginity and regrets it. I think it's quite funny.

>> No.19807372

>>19807363
Why?

>> No.19807388

>>19807372
What?

>> No.19807393

>>19807388
Why did you find it funny?

>> No.19807425

>>19807393
Because she fucked up. She got horny, had sex, and she was abandoned. Women are funny creatures.

>> No.19807461

>>19807425
Yeah, I've reread this poem like ten times now and I'm not sure I get your interpretation at all.

>> No.19807468

>>19807461
Well that's what it says: "pluck my rose" and "snap my lily" is about her virginity, and "daughter of Eve" refers to her sinful nature, not being able to resist temptations. Her garden is just her maidenhood and purity.

>> No.19807493

>>19807468
How can you lose your virginity twice? She's got more than one flower, right?

>> No.19807501

>>19807493
the pink one and the brown one, yes

>> No.19807508

>>19807493
It's just a figure of speech.

>> No.19807513

>>19807501
Ohh, damn, I didn't think of that. Whoa. That's kinda deep.

>> No.19807516

>>19806536
This should be known as Lamentations of a Roastie

>> No.19807523

>>19807513
kek. I really think that it's about lost youth. Surely a 19th century woman wouldn't write so intensely about losing her virginity, right?

>> No.19807531

>>19807523
It talks about how shameful of an act it was during the Victorian era.

>> No.19808188
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19808188

I love women.

>> No.19808199

>>19806536
Don't know how many (You)s you get for this but its not enough. Thanks for this though. Nice to get some literature content on /lit/

>> No.19808339

>>19806536
The Roastie's Lament

>> No.19808361

I like this one by her

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

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19808448

>female poets

>> No.19808466

>>19808188
Based and sexpilled

>> No.19808493

>>19807508
I don't know, I feel like if the poem was really about virginity, you wouldn't use a garden-plot metaphor since a garden implies that it's something you have a lot of. I just interpreted the poem being that she spent time on the wrong things during her youth and regrets it in the present.

>> No.19808531

The poem is clearly slut-shaming, it's called A Daughter of Eve, a famously dumb cunt that ruined everything. Rossetti was extremely pious.

>> No.19809100

>>19808493
>garden-plot metaphor
Isn't that the Garden of Eden?

>> No.19810076

Bump

>> No.19810081

>>19810076
Fuck off already. No one cares.

>> No.19810931

>>19806555
yeah, what we need is more frogposters crying about their virginity