Christina Rossetti Research Paper

The Life of Christina Rossetti People all around the world have used poetry to express their feelings and tell about stories in their lives. This method of writing goes back many centuries and has evolved over time. There are many different types of poetry that have been used by many famous poets including sonnets, haiku, and free verse. Many popular men and women are known for their great works in poetry, like poetess Christina Georgina Rossetti who is known to be one of the most important women poetess in the nineteenth century. This greatly admired woman is well known for being an expert in writing poems about fantasy, religion, and even poems for children.

Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in London England on December 5th 1830. Christina

Her first recorded poem was completed at the age of 12 (Rossetti 1). She focused mostly on Christ based poetry and made many devotionals after she became sick in 1871. Out of the numerous amount of poems she created, her most important and well known works are the “Goblin Market and Other Poems”. “Goblin Market and Other Poems” bridges the generic space between simplistic fairy tale and complex adult allegory (as once Christian, psychological) (Harrison 1). After being published it became a complete success for many periodicals during that time. Rossetti incorporates her temptation fall, and reclamation in her poems preserving their cumulative lessons in human fallibility and mercy (Escobar 1). “Goblin Market” was about temptations, sacrifice, and

In 1871 Christina was stricken by Graves’ disease, a thyroid disorder that marred her appearance and left her life in danger (Christina Rossetti 1). Although she had the deathly disease, she still continued her work in poetry. She accepted her affliction with courage and resignation, sustained by religious faith, and she continued to publish, issuing one collection of poems in 1875 and A Pageant and Other Poems in 1881 (Christina Rossetti 1). Being the strong Christian she was she didn’t let her health get the best of her and she put her trust in God. She continued her work in poetry during even the roughest years with this disease and ended up creating some of her greatest work. Over a period of time her health continued to decline. She later developed a fatal cancer in 1891 (Christina Rossetti 1). This fatal cancer got the best of Christiana and she later passed away on December 29th 1899. Out of the sixty nine years she lived, she had made some of the world’s greatest poems during the nineteenth