Tag Archives: Christina Rossetti

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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What Can I Give Him? Give Him My Heart

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2010

Spiritual Sunday Snow currently blankets southern Maryland as we enter the final days leading up to Christmas, making this the perfect time to print Christina Rossetti’s gorgeous poem, “In the Bleak Midwinter.”I love how it begins with hard and cold images and concludes with a simple gift of the heart. Although God is worshipped by […]

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Looking to Poetry for Afterlife Evidence

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2010

Spiritual Sunday It has finally sunk in with me that my friend Alan will not recover from his cancer, and I find myself wrestling once again with the questions that arose after my son drowned. The biggest question, of course, is whether death is the end. Every Sunday in my Episcopal Church I claim that […]

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