Tag Archives: Christina Rossetti

Apples That Taste of Earth and Song

By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2018

Apples bring out poetic creativity, all the more so because the West has seen them as the forbidden fruit. I share here a selection of tempting apple poems.

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White House Assaulters & Goblin Market

By Robin Bates | Published: February 12, 2018

“Goblin Market” seems only to relevant these days given the violence against women incidents emerging from the White House.

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Love Came Down at Christmas

By Robin Bates | Published: December 24, 2017

People ask for physical miracles so that they may believe. Christina Rossetti points out that Jesus gave us something far more miraculous: divine love.

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Here Is No Water but Only Rock

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2014

Dry rocks have functioned as images of spiritual desolation throughout the history of Good Friday poetry.

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Who Has Seen the Wind?

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2014

Christina Rossetti’s “Who Has Seen the Wind?” is about the Holy Spirit.

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Weeping, We Hold Him Fast Tonight

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2013

Christina Rossetti invokes Jesus’ parable of the ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom in this Advent poem.

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There Is No Friend Like a Sibling

By Robin Bates | Published: December 28, 2012

My sons’ special friendship brings to mind Laura and Lizzie’s friendship in “Goblin Market.”

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Love Saith, “Be with Me Where I Am”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 16, 2012

A Christina Rossetti poem about the massacre of the innocents looks for solace for such tragedies in Christ’s love.

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What Fictional Fantasy Means

By Robin Bates | Published: January 6, 2011

Having taught British Fantasy Literature for the first time last semester, I need to think back on it before it becomes a distant memory.    By reflecting publicly, I can share some of the insights I gained from the course. Two major things I learned are that (1) fantasy is an oppositional genre—by which I […]

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