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Nature in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry
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Christina Rossetti inherits the traditional Christian view of nature, that can be said the anti-romantic view of nature. In traditional Christianity, the natural and the divine are separate; the divine is transcendental and not immanent in nature. So, Rossetti has the typological view of nature, which sees the natural world as mere world of types or emblems of the divine meanings and messages. As a religious allegorist, Rossetti tries to find in nature the religious analogy corresponding to the divine meaning. In “Consider the Lilies of the field,” “Symbols,” “A Better Resurrection,” “Winter: My Secret,” “Paradise,” etc, Rossetti reads the various religious analogies in the natural objects. They are usually used as devices to tell the activity of the divine love and grace, and the order of the universe imposed by God. Sometimes, Rossetti manipulates the natural scene and uses the nature’s voice itself for creating the religious parable. Rossetti, as a devotional poet, deliberately separates herself from the mirth of merrymaking nature, fearing that happy communion with nature serves as an obstruction to attaining God’s love. Only her very solipsistic self might reach the heavenly vision through the divine love. And this is what “An Old-World Thicket” and “The Thread of Life” reveal. Rossetti’s anti-romantic view of nature may be the result of her religious thought that nature has become totally corrupted by the original sin of human beings.
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Christina Rossetti inherits the traditional Christian view of nature, that can be said the anti-romantic view of nature. In traditional Christianity, the natural and the divine are separate; the divine is transcendental and not immanent in nature. So, Rossetti has the typological view of nature, which sees the natural world as mere world of types or emblems of the divine meanings and messages. As a religious allegorist, Rossetti tries to find in nature the religious analogy corresponding to the divine meaning. In “Consider the Lilies of the field,” “Symbols,” “A Better Resurrection,” “Winter: My Secret,” “Paradise,” etc, Rossetti reads the various religious analogies in the natural objects. They are usually used as devices to tell the activity of the divine love and grace, and the order of the universe imposed by God. Sometimes, Rossetti manipulates the natural scene and uses the nature’s voice itself for creating the religious parable. Rossetti, as a devotional poet, deliberately separates herself from the mirth of merrymaking nature, fearing that happy communion with nature serves as an obstruction to attaining God’s love. Only her very solipsistic self might reach the heavenly vision through the divine love. And this is what “An Old-World Thicket” and “The Thread of Life” reveal. Rossetti’s anti-romantic view of nature may be the result of her religious thought that nature has become totally corrupted by the original sin of human beings.
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