Monday, 17 October 2011

The Convent Threshold

  I didn't understand Rosetti's Convent Threshold as much as either of the other poems I had to work on. What was clear was that the major themes of the poem were along the lines of Heaven, Earth, Hell and love. It is commonly believed that the poem is based on the story of Heloise and Abelard, and I can see some parallels there. The ambiguous narrator talks of forbidden love and urges his or her lover to follow him or her to Heaven, where they may be together for eternity.


 

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