Christina Rossetti Essay

During this essay I will be comparing two poems, some(prenominal) written by women, and both fox same theme, the poems were written a hundred apart and are written about woman who were interpreted advantage of by a man, both women in the poems become with child(predicate) and keep the child. The poem Cousin Kate was written in the nineteenth century by a poet named Christina Georgina Rossetti, it portrays a story of chastity and double standards. It demonstrates how animateness was for women working in jobs such as a maiden in the eighteen hundreds, and how higher figures in society used t successor wealth and military position to take advantage of them.A master copy tricks the maid into having sex, and gets her pregnant, then afterward marries her Cousin Kate, who cannot have children, Yet Ive a gift you have not got, and seem not like to get. She speaks kindly of Kate at the start-off and then gets bitter by verse 5. The maid knows that the churchman would withstand ever ything he had to have a child and she is not sorry for what happened because the manufacturing business was not honorable to her and used her. Even though she is the victim she is the champion that the neighbors call an outcast thing Where as her cousin Kate is spoken of as good and pure and because Cousin Kate did not have sex with the churchman he married her.I think that the poet has included a hardly a(prenominal) sub texts in this poem and also has written a few play on words like She was hardened by solarise and air and her son is the lords only son therefore he is the heir to all of the lord belongings, land and wealth, and she wouldnt give her child up for any of it, because she knows one day her son will inherit it, when the lord dies. Eileen McAuley wrote The seduction in the 1980s and I personally think that something quasi(prenominal) to what happens in this poem happened to her, even though it is written in third gear person.The male character in this poem makes n o effort to woo the teenage lady friend, he gives her vodka and talks about himself, he then leads her to a riverside and seduces her. Before this, the missy used to read magazines about reverie and fashion and it quotes Where a stranger could lead you to new worlds, and how would you know if you neer took a chance? . The girl was influenced by romantic thoughts, she had her own ideas, and the boy thought of it as just sex, the same as Cousin Kate this girl was lured and tricked into sex, and the neighbors say she always looked the type.In Cousin Kate the maid was seduced by wealth and status, and in The Seduction the girl was seduced by alcohol and lead on by the reading of magazines such as My guy and Jackie. both(prenominal) poems speak of the girls crying alone, Even so I sit and grizzle in dust and She sobbed in the cool, locked in the darkness of her room. But where as in The Seduction the young girl cries because of all the innocents and fun she has lost the maid in Cousin Kate Cries because of the mistake she made of sleeping with the lord before they were married.Both of these poems portray the women to be naive and innocent. Both characters (The maiden & The Young Girl) feel betrayed by the men, in The Seduction the poet writes about how the girl has missed out on petty things like Glossy horoscopes, full phase of the moon of fresh fruit diets how did she feel betrayed? and in Cousin Kate the poet writes about how if she could hook up with the lord now she wouldnt have and how her intensions were totally honorable further he just used her and discarded her, I would have plash into his face, and not have taken his hand .In conclusion, both of these poems visual aspect how society looks down on pregnant young girls, and how times unfeignedly havent changed over 100 years, it also demonstrates how in the 19th century a young poor girl could be seduced by wealth and status and still this happens in the 21st century. Show prevue only The above preview is unformatted text This student written slice of work is one of many that can be found in our GCSE JRR Tolkien section.