1. Poetry of Christian Rossetti
After the death of the two pigeons, Rosetti ends the second four-line quatrain with a mournful, prayer-like statement: "So farewell life and love and pleasures new." ... Because of their love and care for each other, they cannot be forced to part from each other even to save themselves. ... Never having married and enduring several failed relationships, it is not presumptive to assume that this poem stems from Rosetti's reflections upon her own love life. In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thought I turned towards you to weep; but yo...
- Word Count: 2526
- Approx Pages: 10
- Grade Level: Undergraduate