Dinah Roe on Twice
The shift from emotional dependence to spiritual autonomy
Jerome McGann on Shut Out
Spiritual Exile
Carol Rumens on Song: When I am Dead, My Dearest
Gentle Rejection of Mourning Conventions
Gilbert and Gubar on A Birthday
Reclamation of the female voice
Simon Humphries on Echo
Yearning due to grief and trauma
Isobel Armstrong on Remember
Female voice should have authority over mourning
Angela Leighton on No, Thank You, John
Proto-feminist rejection of romantic coercion
Kathryn Blake on From The Antique
Bordering on Nihilism
Germaine Greer on Maude Clare
Exposes the hypocrisy of marriage and gender roles
Sandra Gilbert on Goblin Markert
Proto-feminist poem
Jan Marsh on Goblin Market
The fruit represents sin and temptation
Delores Rosenblum on Souer Louise de la Misericorde
The poem expresses the cost of repression
Isobel Armstrong on Winter: My Secret
Rosetti transforms secrecy into a form of power
Dinah Roe on Twice
The shift from emotional dependence to spiritual autonomy
Jerome McGann on Uphill
An Allegory of Christian Perseverance
