The blessed damozel dante gabriel rossetti biography
The blessed damozel dante gabriel rossetti biography
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The Blessed Damozel
Poem and painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The Blessed Damozel" is perhaps the best known poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as well as the title of his painting (and its replica) illustrating the subject.
The poem was first published in in the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ. Rossetti subsequently revised the poem twice and republished it in , and [1]
Poem
The poem was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven",[2] with its depiction of a lover grieving on Earth over the death of his loved one.
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Rossetti chose to represent the situation in reverse. The poem describes the damozel observing her lover from heaven, and her unfulfilled yearning for their reunion in heaven. The first four stanzas of the poem are inscribed on the frame of the painting:
The blessed damozel leaned out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,