sudden light

BY; DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

SUDDEN LIGHT

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI He was a member of the pre-Raphaelite

brotherhood.

was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what's classic .

1848 - the formation of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1849 - met Elizabeth Siddal and used her as the main model

1856 - met Fanny Cornforth and used her as the main model

1875 - met Jane Morris

1860 - married Siddal

1862 - Siddal died

1865 - used J. Morris as the main model

1871 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti criticized as “ the Fleshly School of Poetry "

1872 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti died

SOME OF HIS POEMS:

• Love’s Lovers

• Lost Days

• The One Hope

• Love And Hope

• A Little While

• Silent Noon

• And the one we are talking about “ sudden light”

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI(1828-1882)

I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound, the lights around the shore .

You have been mine before,— How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore

  In death's despite ,

 And day and night yield one delight once more ?

• These line are taken from Sudden light. It was written by Dante Rossetti in Victorian Era  .

•  There are some Victorian features in this poem. First there is use a nostalgia , For example, (6-7) Second, there is use of transients ,For example, (13-15). Third, there is a realism ,For example,(13).Forth there is a use of reform , for example in line

(13) .

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“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write

poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is

filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for”.

Hessa hamoud . Mona saud

manal altom . Aisha osiod

Amlak salman . Aliah fawaz

Noura saad . Alnera saad

Zainab . Sara saud .alanoud

THANK YOU.