Christina Rossetti
Dream Land
Works Cited
Christina Rossetti
Dream Land
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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The "single star" is God.
"Led by a single star,
She came from very far"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
-Pre-Raphaelites rejected the classical and mechanistic teachings of art. They believed it corrupted the academics of art
- They wanted to return to the way art was before Raphael and Michelangelo 's time.
-They favored the intense colors, detail, and complexity of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.
-Her style was very darn, and Gothic.
-Most of her early works were about death or loss.
- She saw art as a refuge between this world and
the Transcendental world.
She is leaving the world.
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/crossetti/bl-crossetti-dream.htm
Analysis of Dreamland
by Christina Rossetti
-4 stanzas, 8 lines in each stanza.
- The poem is a metaphor for death.
-The poem starts with a river, which is symbolic of an individual life. It flows into an ocean, as life flows into death.
-At the end of the poem the girl ends up on a mossy shore which represents Heaven.
"She left the rosy morn,
She left the feilds of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn,
And water springs."
- She is the sister of two of the Pre-Raphaelite Brothers.
-She was never a part of the brotherhood, but she contributed works of poetry to their movement often.
- Dream Land was first published in the Pre-Raphaelite Newspaper called The Germ in 1849.
-It was later reprinted in her most famous collection of poetry called Goblin Market.
She has reached her destination, but has to wait there until the "Last Day"
"Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore"
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