Tuesday, 17 November 2015

How does Rossetti explore human emotion in "Good Friday" and other poems you have studied?

At the beginning of the first stanza of 'Good Friday', Rossetti explores human emotions of self doubt and insecurity by using an ontological verb "am" to illustrate the insecurity she feels about her own identity. This is reiterated with the use of a metaphor "stone" which Rossetti is using to express that she is feeling insentient and almost unfeeling, however this metaphor also allows Rossetti to explore feelings of guilt because she is unable to express her emotions at the death of Christ. However, in "In the round tower at Jhansi" Rossetti explores human emotions such as love and intimacy, through the use of repition in the final stanza to show how desperate the characters were for human contact and intimacy in the face of death "It is not pain thus to kiss and die, one kiss more." this is a stark contrast to "Good Friday" where the speaker is completely unemotional and detached.

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