The Theme Of Love In The Poems Cousin Kate And Maude Clare
Love in most cases is supposedly something wonderful and amazing. This
is not the case in the poems Cousin Kate and Maude Clare. Christina
Rosseti presents love as being sordid and dirty. Also as a weakness
like an affliction. However traditional Victorian ideas are not
supposed to be like this they are about white weddings and true
romance by writing these poems Christina Rosseti has challenged the
original Victorian ideas.
The love in both of these poems involves betrayal. For example, in
Cousin Kate one of the quotes was; 'chose you and cast me by.' This I
find very powerful, in just a few words it explains how she was cast
away and discarded as if she were not human and were replaceable. It
also explains that he chose someone else, the way this is written
makes us think of the author as being like the lord's toy and as soon
as something better came along he chose that. Another quote from this
poem is 'His plaything and his love' again she is regarded as an
object something for him to play with and just use. The fact that is
said His plaything and his love makes her sound like his property,
just something he owned.
An example of betrayal in Maude Clare, is 'here's my half of the faded
leaves.' This makes it sound like a divorce, as if she is ending
everything between the two of them by using the metaphor of giving
back the half of her leaves. It is like handing back the memories and
all the good times they had together. Also the fact that it says the
faded leaves it makes them sound like they are past their best and
decaying, like the love her and sir Thomas had once shared.
Maude Clare says to Nell 'Take my share of a fickle heart' she is
saying part of Thomas's love is her share, but she doesn't want it as
she claims it to be untrue love by using the word 'fickle'.
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from the rest in that they describe a love that has ended or will end