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1
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Italian sonnet form
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More harsh than Shakespearean sonnet
2
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‘silent land’
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- Greek ideas of the underworld –> ghost-like spirits linger gloomily
3
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vignette
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Poignant vignette –> small short moment of their courtship
4
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Self-abnegating
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Typical of a Victorian female speaker
5
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Courtship
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- He takes her ‘by the hand’
- ‘you tell me of our future that you planned’ –> Rossetti may not be critiquing
- Man could move on more quickly
6
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Death and disease
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- Greek + folklore
- Typhoid –> Killed Victoria’s husband Albert
7
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The ghost may return to home
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- Victorian homes
