Transforming 19th Century Poem Maude Clare by Christina Rossetti Into a Contemporary Magazine Article
I chose to transform the 19th century poem “Maude Clare”, by Christina
Rossetti into a contemporary magazine article by interviewing the
characters from the poem as though it were a true story for the
audience to read for entertainment. I chose the “Maude Clare” poem
because I found it interesting to read and could imagine reading it as
a story from a book or from a magazine or newspaper article. The poem
has a dramatic storyline of a bride and groom being embarrassed after
they leave the church. The storyline would cause a scandal and would
appeal to a wide audience who thrive on gossip. E.g. a tabloid
newspaper or a glossy magazine. I decided the article would be written
for a glossy magazine.
Maude Clare and Lord Thomas are getting married at the church, and
just as everything seems perfect, their wedding day is disrupted when
the grooms ex girlfriend turns up to announce she is pregnant. Neither
the bride nor the groom experience joy during the occasion because of
Maude Clare’s patent presence. Her presence sullies the marriage
between Nell and him, adding conflict to the wedding. Rosseti
contrasts Maude Clare and the bride throughout the poem.
I transformed the poem by writing it as a story as though I am the
reporter interviewing the guests at the wedding. I modernised the
story by making Nell and Tom ordinary people. In the article, I have
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effects of both time past and time present on the final version of the poem. Like
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In the end of the narrator’s consciousness, the tone of the poem shifted from a hopeless bleak
Another way that Trethewey brings this poem together is through the use of
poem because of its story line I like the way that at the start the
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poem have a happy mood but it is the way he has made the poem very
writing poetry, “I had a terror I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by
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