Let’s Read and Understand a Poem: “In An Artist’s Studio” by Christina Rossetti

Today we will look at a sonnet by the 19th century poet, Christina Rossetti. It’s called ‘In an Artist’s Studio’, and has a connection with the visual arts and painting. I’ll go through the poem in detail, explaining the meaning and looking at some technical aspects such as rhyme, structure, form, and alliteration. I hope you find it interesting. I’ll also give you some background information on Christina Rossetti, her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his wife Elizabeth Siddal. For more information, and to see some of the paintings, go to: editions.covecollective.org/c...
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In this lesson:
00:00 "In An Artist's Studio" by Christina Rossetti
02:43 1. First Quatrain
06:47 2. Second Quatrain
11:01 3. Sestet
20:54 Background information
24:19 "In An Artist's Studio" by Christina Rossetti: Full Poetry Reading

[@engvidGill]

Thank you very much for watching, everyone! You can learn more about Christina Rossetti and the poem's background here: editions.covecollective.org/content/dante-gabriel-rossetti-christina-rossetti-and-elizabeth-siddal Watch all of my lessons on English poetry: kzbin.info/aero/PLjvCo2ax1ZUec55HG7h2EKV6k3rkYFFIi

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Hi teacher, I'm from Uruguay and I'm studying literature (in Spanish of course) but i also want to learn English literature, so that's my next career. I love sonnets... The form is perfect and it amazes me. Thanks for the video. Literature is magic and unique in all languages!

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That's amazing, I also love sonnets so much that I even wrote some when I was at High School (in Spanish, since it's my native language). I hope I can read good poetry in English.

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Poetry is my guilty pleasure!😊Thank you for the lecture, Gill!

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Poetry is awesome and can be really powerful!

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Thank you so much for this poem. When I was at College for teachers I didn't like literature and with You I just love it! More poems and newspapers please 🙌

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Although Pre-raphaelist paintings are my favorite, this is the first time that I listen to a poem. Thank you teacher for your lessons with reflection, your patience, you are the best 🌸💕😙 Happy Holiday and Happy new year 🌞

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Gil, you give so much enlightment to us, I truly want to hug you, thank you very much ma'am. Here in Brazil, we have popular poets called 'cordelistas' ('cordelists', maybe in English, I guess) and they say that when the phrase ends with a not precise semi vowel that the poem has the 'broken foot' - that poem is made with a 'broken foot' rhym. That also occuors when the poem don't fallows exatally the sylabic metric. But, those poems have beauty and porpuse too in their own way. Ah, just a tiny contribution: a sestet is composed by two tercets. Sorry for any error in that writting.

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Thanks Gill for the incredible video. The line: That mirror gave back all her loveliness I think mirror here is a metaphor for canvas because mirrors never lie and reflect your image as you are. Only a canvas with the help of an artist can give back her long-lost beauty. The model in the poem has left behind her youth and the artist has done his best to defy time and its pulverizing force.

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Hello Gill, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from me in India! It is not a wonder then, the very famous poet was also known for her Christmas carols - In the Bleak Midwinter , being one of them. Thank you for bringing uo Chrisyina Rosette. Very captivating indeed.

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When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.

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Well probably there was a mirror just to enhance her body, multiply the image or give light to the canvas. We have to be aware that glass, mirror or metal was used throughout the history of painting in order to show the reflection of self portraits and painting. In one of the picture of the Dutch painter Vermeer (the anonimous art genius) we can see the reflection of the girl taken music lessons.

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Many thanks Gill, that was marvelous. 👍 Really I enjoyed a lot with the lesson and also the unique way you taught as always. I'm interested in poems a lot, and I was really surprised when I found out that what a small world we have because we have similar rules in our poems in Persia. Have a great day, nice weekend, A Marry Christmas and Happy New Year, dearest Gill.

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It seems like a painting by her brother, Dante Rossetti. Thank you.

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Thank you very much for introducing to us this splendid achievement of Refailite circle of the painting that nourished her poetry This is simply beautiful with its story that emerges from the lines

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[@devjanichakraborty6204]

Ma'am Gill, Here,in the poem 'ln An Artist's Studio' by Christina Rossetti,you have shown the ryhming scheme of a sonnet which is very useful to the students of English literature and i liked the explanation of the poem as well ! Ma'am,i feel,this poem has some resemblance with the poem 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning,though that is not a sonnet,but the subject of the poem is almost the same ! Thank you so much !😃

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Thank you, so much. I have really enjoyed the poem❤

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I HAVE JUST SEEN IT AGAIN iT It is so moving so pregnant with artistic quality of life of which creation is a facet creation and creativity I googled on internet and came up to her all poems and it is lovely so enveloped in secrets

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Hello I am here again This is a marvellous poem It is rich in artistic creation and life of painters and their models This is incredible Pre raephelite painting This is creative Thank you Gill

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Thank you very ;uch for liking my commentary i e my two commentaries I only knew about this poem the day I saw it at Gill Engvid i was flabbergasted because the horizon in the comprehension in its resding is immense I knew another writer not Englisg whose charecter was obsessed with the face that will mean his art and it was his dream I try to read this poe; to know it read it again and again It is maybe a litrary lieu commun a topic Sorry i like this poe;e A Gallatee like Happy New year

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That's really a wonderful explanation as you delivered the entire poem with smooth and lucid narrative style I would like to watch more Videos especially of the most remarkable poetry and other genres of English literature as I myself am an avid student of world literature. Thank you.

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Could the 'mirror' be the painting itself because her beauty is reflected in it.He didn't look at her as she is ,with flaws and all, but as a perfect damsel of his dreams.

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Hi miss Gill. What about a poem about Christmas? Merry Christmas with Christ in our hearts.

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