ROSSETTI CONTEXT AND CRITICS

Question	Answer
Function of the poem Remember now	Commonly read out at funerals
What happened to Rossetti the year before she wrote Shut Out?	Her father died
Victorian fear	Death and being buried alive - they were buried with a bell so they couldn't be buried alive
Ruskin's view on what Rossetti's poetry did	"Rossetti was violating the common ear."
Bowra's view on idea of love	"The idea of love turned inexorably to the idea of death"
Context - No thank you, John"	About John Brett, pre-raphaelite artist who proposed to Rossetti but she refused.
Simon Armitage - No Thank You, John	"She is not to be bullied into a relationship because of a man or social convention."
Shut Out - Context	The Garden imagery mimics that of the Garden of Eden in the genesis creation story
Victorian society - religion	Revolved around major revival of religious activity - Bible = literal truth
Rosenbulm, Shut out	"the garden is unambiguously edenic"
20th century critics - Goblin Market	"Lizzie is the figure of Christ and Laura's saviour"
Simon Avery - women in society	"Rossetti examines the woman's place in society through consideration of the institution of marriage."
Cecil Lang - Rossetti's style	"Rossetti's style is fantasy crossed with realism."
Simon Avery - purpose of Rossetti's poems	"Rossetti's poems encourage women to claim independence and agency."
Event in 1870	The Married Women's Property Act, allows married women to own their own property
Angel in the House	"Man must be please; but to please is a woman's pleasure."

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