Throughout her life Christina Rossetti was pursued by the thought of death. Many of her poems, especially her later poems, display her concerns about death. Her early poems show death as the destroyer of mortal things, reflecting her pessimism and her sometimes naturalistic views on life. Her death wish is sometimes associated with her thwarted desire for absolute love in the world. Her religious poems describe death as the gate to heaven or to hell, the final resting place from the pains of her life. Either as her religious yearning for a better place of Resurrection or as her way of expressing her unfulfilled desire in the world, her persistent theme of death is an expression of the conflict between a sometimes skeptical, sometimes religious view.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501076 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Yang, Okhee J. |
| Contributors | Stevens, L. Robert, Hughes, Robert Lee, 1944-, Kobler, J. F. (Jasper Fred), 1928- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iii, 81 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Yang, Okhee J., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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