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Christina Rossetti: The Poetry Of Endurance (Ad Feminam),Used
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Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossettis works and places them in the context of her life. Rosenblum shows that what was ostensibly devotional, moral, and loveless, was actually what Luce Irigaray calls mimetism, a subtle parody and subversion of the male tradition of literature.Only with the coming of feminist criticism can Rossetti be meaningfully reevaluated. Rosenblum calls Rossettis works the poetry of endurance, stating that it is similar, and at times identical, to the female sentimental tradition in literature. Rossetti endured the constraints of the Victorian female artistic spirit by becoming a watcher. Within this selfaccepted role, Rossetti was able to carefully and deliberately choose artistic selfprotection. In her religious poetry, Rossetti transcended, by aesthetic renunciation, the alienation and immobilization forced upon her.Rossettis poetry is full of paradox; it sings about silence, exposes the poets oblivion. From the repining Victorian poet, there emerged a stone woman. Rosenblum discusses this passively enduring female figures alienation from knowledge and power, and how the myth of self strengthened the lyric voice within her. Because she was a woman, she was denied the male use of the lyric I.Rossettis work is unified, Rosenblum argues, because she was a deliberate poet, and by accepting the burden of womanhood, she played out what men only symbolized as female in their art. By her mimicry and revision of the male tradition of literature, Christina Rossetti engaged the patriarchal tradition in ways that make it usable for the female experience, and that provide a critique of male objectification of women in art.
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