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EMAIL<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SYLLABUS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0POLICIES<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| QUESTIONS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JOURNALS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PAPER<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0EXAM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSong (I): She Sat and Sang Alway\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.  What is the value of memory and hope in this poem?  What changes have they wrought, if any, in this poem\u2019s speaker?  From what force has the speaker been released? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.  How is this poem concerned with the limitations of expression?  How are the speaker\u2019s emotions resolved or dealt with, if they in fact are dealt with? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSong (II): \u201cWhen I am Dead, My Dearest\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.  What is the point of the speaker\u2019s projecting consciousness beyond death? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.  How are remembrance and forgetting similar in their effect? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.  Is Nature present in this poem?  If so, what role does it play? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.  What reflections does this poem make about the way Pre-Raphaelite art represents women? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.  How is the woman referred to in Christina Rossetti\u2019s poem transformed from her ordinary self, and to what end? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn Apple Gathering\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.  How is an apple gathering a metaphor of something larger\u2014namely a relationship?  What does the poem imply about the staying power of love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWinter My Secret\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.  What is the benefit to be gained from keeping a secret?  How does the speaker treat the imagined addressee in this poem? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.  What purpose do the references to the seasons serve? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.  How is this poem about expression and concealment?  What sorts of expression are alluded to? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo Thank You, John\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.  How does this poem construct an unattractively \u201cmale\u201d perspective on male\/female relations, and how does the female speaker counter that perspective? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.  How does this poem differentiate between friendship and love? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition: <\/strong>Abrams, M. H. et al, eds.  The Norton Anthology of English Literature.  <\/em>8th ed.  Vol. E.  New York: Norton, 2006.  ISBN Package 2 (Vols. DEF) 0-393-92834-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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