Christina+Rossetti

=Christina Rossetti =



__Background Information__

In 1830, Christina Rossetti was born into a family of poets. Her brother and father were poets, so she felt inclined to learn how to write poetry as well. Rossetti's first poem was written in 1842. After that, poetry began to come naturally to her, submitting seven poems to a news journal 8 years later. She is best known for her mystical religious lyrics, and her ballads. As all poets have their own "type" of poetry, she was well known for making her readers feel intense emotions from the symbolism she used. //Goblin Market and Other Poems// is her most famous work. This was published in 1862, 10 years before publishing, Sing-Song, a collection of verse for children. She wrote to a very broad audience, not to one specific age group. In 1880, it was discovered that Rossetti had a thyroid disorder. Her social life went down the drain, because of her illness, but she continued to pursue her love of poetry. "Christina Rossetti is increasingly being reconsidered a major Victorian poet" (Academy of American Poets), especially after her death in 1894 from cancer.

__3 Poems__

Goblin Market and Other Poems
Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries;— All ripe together In summer weather,— Morns that pass by, Fair eves that fly; Come buy, come buy: Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine, Dates and sharp bullaces, Rare pears and greengages, Damsons and bilberries, Taste them and try: Currants and gooseberries, Bright-fire-like barberries, Figs to fill your mouth, Citrons from the South, Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; Come buy, come buy." Evening by evening Among the brookside rushes, Laura bowed her head to hear, Lizzie veiled her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and finger tips. "Lie close," Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: "We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?" "Come buy," call the goblins Hobbling down the glen. "Oh," cried Lizzie, "Laura, Laura, You should not peep at goblin men." Lizzie covered up her eyes, Covered close lest they should look; Laura reared her glossy head, And whispered like the restless brook: "Look, Lizzie, look, Lizzie, Down the glen tramp little men. One hauls a basket, One bears a plate, One lugs a golden dish Of many pounds weight. How fair the vine must grow Whose grapes are so luscious; How warm the wind must blow Through those fruit bushes." "No," said Lizzie: "No, no, no; Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gifts would harm us." She thrust a dimpled finger In each ear, shut eyes and ran: Curious Laura chose to linger Wondering at each merchant man. One had a cat's face, One whisked a tail, One tramped at a rat's pace, One crawled like a snail, One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry, One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry. She heard a voice like voice of doves Cooing all together: They sounded kind and full of loves In the pleasant weather. Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone.

1.) Repetition- red 2.) Simile- green 3.) Personification- blue
 * Literary Techniques **

Song References __Repetition: __ "Come buy, come buy." "Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata!  Aint no passing craze Hakuna matata!  Hakuna Matata!  Hakuna matata!" -Hakuna Matata from The Lion King __Simile: __ "Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the launch"

"She's like a spider waiting for the kill Look out for Cruella Deville" -Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmations

__Personification __ :

"voice of doves"

"Or let the eagle tell you where he's been?" -Colors Of The Wind from Pocahontas

 A Birthday My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

1.) Simile- green 2.) Repetition- blue 3.) Hyperbole- red
 * Literary Techniques **

__Simile __: "My heart is like a singing bird"
 * Song References: **

"Life is just like a bright sunny day" -With a Smile and a Song from Snow White and The Seven Dwarves

__Repetition: __ "My heart is like"

"Cinderelly, Cinderelly Night and day it's Cinderelly" -Cinderelly, Cinderelly from Cinderella

__Hyperbole: __

"And peacocks with a hundred eyes"

"Let every creature go for broke and sing Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing  It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling" -I Just Can't Wait To Be King from The Lion King

Who Has Seen The Wind
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

1.) Repetition- blue 2.) Personification- teal 3.) Symbolism- pink
 * Literary Techniques **

__<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Repetition: __ "Who has seen the wind?"
 * Song References **

"Oh I just can't wait to be king! Oh I just can't wait to be king!  Oh I just can't wait to be king!" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-I Just Can't Wait To Be King from The Lion King __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Personification: __ "trees bow down their heads" "The newt play the flute The carp play the harp The plaice play the bass And they soundin' sharp The bass play the brass The chub play the tub" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid

__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Symbolism: __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"The wind"

"Look out! Look out! Pink elephants on parade Here they come! Hippety hoppety" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Pink Elephants on Parade from Dumbo

"Christina Rossetti." //Christina Rossetti//. Academy Of American Poets, n.d. Web. 8 May 2013. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/716>.