Christina Rossetti Essay

So this gives the cottage maiden some protect that she make dos this and he does not, it thitherfore gives her power over him and her cousin Kate. The narrator tells us what she would have said and through with(p) to the Lord if she had been in Kates position. There is loyalty in the narrator when she says she would have spit in his face and not have taken his hand. Whether she would re eithery have acted like this, we do not know, and the proofreader is shit to believe that she wishes cousin Kate had done that, perhaps showing a hint of jealousy.The begin of the poem is in past tense, I was a cottage maiden. The narrator is looking back, at this point, to what her life history was like before she had met the Lord. This poem at no point refers to the feelings of Cousin Kate or the Lord. The narrator in The Seduction seems extremely distraught ab expose her pregnancy. She rips up all her My Guy and her Jackie photo-comics and breaks the heels of the high white office which she had worn that night. To the reader, it seems like she is trying to destroy the memories and what happened the night of the party.The girl realises that she is truly frightened and cheated by the promises lonesome(prenominal) tacitly made in her comics. The comics show pictures of girls that be happy with their boyfriends, and stories that tell the adolescent readers that everything will turn over itself out. The girl at the beginning of the story goes out of her way to look beautiful, to be more get along and grown up. Whereas now that she is pregnant, she does not wish to grow up, she wants to stay innocent. The girl looks back on her life before she met the boy, and tells the reader what her life could have been like.She talks about day trips to Blackpool and jumping all the rides, now that she was pregnant she could not do either of these. She cried that she had missed all the innocence around her because having this babe would change her life, she would have to grow up quicker and so miss all the fun teenage years. The narrator talks about ways she thinks would be better to ruin her life than having a baby. She believes that it would be better to smoke scented drugs and starve yourself, like a sick, precocious child than to be in the feminine void of pregnancy.The narrator is obviously extremely distressed about her situation the reader is made to believe that she has not yet told her parents or even the boy of the pregnancy. Many things in Cousin Kate make it recognisable as having being written in the Victorian era. The obvious one is the archaic lyric used, Woes me for joy thereof is a perfect example. In modern day position it can be translated to mean How sad I am that I was joyful about it. The battalion described in the poem are likewise a clue to the era in which it was written, there is a Lord and a cottage maiden.Also the way the neighbours react to a pregnancy out of wedlock, nowadays this is quite common. The narrator was not mind ful she was fair. This is an old way of saying she did not know she was pretty, whereas the girl in The Seduction went out of her way the make herself look beautiful. This is also a divergency between the attitudes of Victorian girls and girls of the 20th Century. The expression little slag used in The Seduction is also very common for its era, whereas the curse words in the era of Cousin Kate would be less shameful and harsh.A peculiar rhyme scheme is used in Cousin Kate. Every other business organisation in each stanza rhymes, whereas the rhyme scheme in The Seduction is not bound to a rule. In some stanzas, the second and forth lines rhyme, but in others, the first, third and fourth lines rhyme. The setting of the poems also shows the reader the time the poem was set. Cousin Kate lived in a cottage and manoeuvered among the rye. The Seduction is set at a friends party and also by The Mersey, green as a septic wound. The filth and mother fucker of the location mirrors the w ay the boy treats her and the way the girl feels afterwards.Things about at the two poems which are no assorted despite the gap of nearly a century and a half between them are the position the girls are in. They are twain either pregnant or have a baby, two of the fathers do not love the girls. The girls both loved the males at the time although in someway trouble what they did. There are boy problems involved even though the men in the poems were of a different class in Cousin Kate the populace was a very upper class lord whereas the man in The seduction was working class He spat into the river, fumbled in a bag.These poems both contain different aspects of deceit. Cousin Kate because of the Lord leaving her for the younger cousin, and The Seduction because of the lies in the girls comics. Hayley Beynon 10G1 Page 1 Mr Jagger Hayley Beynon 10G1 Mr Jagger Show preview only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found i n our GCSE JRR Tolkien section.