Essays on Christina Rossetti

Explore the way in which Christina Rossetti creates character in Babylon the Great and one other poem. Within Rossetti’s poetry she uses character adeptly in order to represent ideas or symbols. Babylon the Great is a poem based on a passage of revelations 18:8 where…

The notion of repression was present in her life from the moment she was born, as her mother, Gabriele Rossetti, was a poet who was in exile from her home in Italy due to her political views. Christina therefore spent her childhood growing up with…

From the Inside, Out In “After Death” by Christina Rossetti, the cultural views of the Victorian era are challenged. Rossetti uses different styles of writing in order to portray her abnormal perspective—at the time—regarding love and gender during the late nineteenth century. In the poem,…