• Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood - influence of natural topic (winter)

• “Russian snows” - nuanced dangers

  • 1812 - Napoleon sent army to Russia in attempt to invade. Many died because of the freezing conditions & as a result, he had to withdraw his troops from the country.

A Better Resurrection  (also written in 1857 and included in Goblin Market and Other Poems

• The speaker compares her life to a ‘frozen thing' (line 13) and laments the lack of greenness surrounding her.
• She likens the resurrection of Christ to the ‘sap of spring' (line 15)
• Cannot see coming of spring nor the resurrection of Christ

<aside> ➡️ This shares the same theme of winter used as concealment

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https://crossref-it.info/textguide/christina-rossetti-selected-poems/28/1889