Analysis Of Twilight Night By Christina Rossetti

This quote by an unknown author relates to Christina Rossetti’s poem “Twilight Night.” In the poem, the speaker starts off describing meeting her love. The second stanza is where the “set it free” part of the quote comes into play. The rest of the poem is the speaker waiting for her lost love to return, hoping it was meant to be. In Christina Rossetti’s poem “Twilight Night” the poet uses the structure of the poem, diction, and imagery to develop a theme of finding lost love. The way Rossetti structured her poem “Twilight Night” helped to develop the theme of finding lost love. The poem is broken into two parts. Part one tells a story. It draws the reader in with its easy to read wording and flowing rhyme scheme. The poem starts off with lines one-five reading, “We met hand to hand,/ We clasped hands close and fast,/ As close as oak and ivy stand;/ But it is past:/ Come day, come night, day comes at last.” The rest of the poem reads just as easily, completing the story. The first stanza, quoted above, is the beginning of the story. The two people meet and fall in love. They are as inseparable as oak and ivy. By the second stanza, the love story is coming to an end; the two part ways and hope to meet again. The third stanza focuses of the hope

Rossetti describes the speaker’s suitor as a honey-seeking bee, a careless swallow, to convey he lacks commitment. The reader can infer she is talking about her suitor because the stanza starts off in lines 16 and 17 saying, “Where my heart is (wherever that may be)/ Might I but follow.” The speaker does not literally mean the heart in her chest but the metaphoric heart she gave her suitor that contains all of her love for him. The imagery in the fourth stanza effectively develops the theme of finding lost love by painting a picture with words of the carefree nature of her love and her hope of him soon returning to