T. Discuss how Rossetti writes about nature in the poem ‘Shut
Out’
Rossetti’s narrator draws our attention to the naturalistic
detail that has attributes to the pre-Raphaelite style that Rossetti was so
heavily influenced by. Such details included the inconsistency of human love,
the importance of religion, individual unworthiness and the earthly
pleasures which are an ever present prospect in both Rossetti’s and Pre-Raphaelite
work. The rich and precise detail shown in this piece highlights the variety of
earthly pleasures and ‘beauty’ within
the connotations of the supposedly metaphorical “song birds” and “flowers
bedewed and green” as well as the downfall or ‘death’ shown within the “[grieving]”
and the “tears” of the overall literal narrative; literal visual themes
which are seen in many Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
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