Attitudes Expressed in the Poem: melancholy (quiet, contemplative sadness) hopeful selfless romantic (love poem?) acceptance -...

The Brotherhood loomed large in the poet’s life, but she was careful to carve out her own creative space

Christina Rosetti

xxiv, 369 p

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John Brett, ‘Christina Rossetti’ (unfinished), 1857. As regards the portrait’s symbolic meaning, much depends on an interpretation of the prominent feather, beautifully painted with a Ruskinian fidelity to nature (Charles Brett, 2005). Jan Marsh (1994) has suggested this may symbolise a quill representing Christina’s vocation as a writer. While this is possible, it ignores the fact that the work is unfinished and one must try to imagine the completed picture....

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