Love

Rossetti was engaged twice but never married

Goblin Market

• “No friend like a sister” - Lizzie is Laura’s saviour

• “Breast to breast” - Intimacy and lesbianism

Shut Out

• “lark” - energy, life and hope

Good Friday

• Ballad - romanticising her religion

• 3 Mary’s love for Christ

Twice

• “Heart” referenced in each stanza

• Caught between earthly love and spiritual

• “(O my love O my love)” repressing love and emotions

Birthday

• “My love is come to me” - both nature and money stanza lead to the same result

Song

• “No roses” - don’t focus on remembrance of love

• “Nightingale” - joyful song in comparison to death/funeral

In the Round Tower

• Captain Skeen and wife

• “Close her cheek to his” “Close his arm” - intimate

• “Kiss and die” - wasteful. Pleasant vs pain

• Love is all consuming

Remembrance

• Iambic pentameter - heart beat

• “Future that you plann’d” - marriage was planned and not for love