{"id":471,"date":"2023-04-19T03:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/?p=471"},"modified":"2023-04-19T03:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:37:54","slug":"introspection-vs-in-an-artists-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/2023\/04\/19\/introspection-vs-in-an-artists-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIntrospection\u201d Vs. \u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that Christina Rossetti\u2019s life was made difficult by her brothers\u2019 use of her as a painting subject, after all her poem, \u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio,\u201d illustrates the plight of an artist\u2019s subject. I feel as though many could point to this poem as best portraying her struggle, yet I believe Rossetti\u2019s poem \u201cIntrospection\u201d is what truly captures her feelings on the matter. Rossetti begins the poem with the blunt statement \u201cI wish it were over the terrible pain,\u201d (1) plunging the reader into the deep end of her own mind and trauma. By using first-person view, the text seems incredibly personal, as if Rossetti is relaying her feelings to the reader as a friend. It is incredibly obvious that in this poem the speaker is Rossetti, recounting her life thus far and how even through incredible pain she was able to stay standing. She even writes of said pain saying, \u201cLet it come tenfold if it must, \/ But I will not groan when I bite the dust\u201d (20). She is revealing how deeply the objectification of her face and body affects her, and how no matter how long she must endure it, she can.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio\u201d certainly also illustrates Rossetti\u2019s perspective on her life so far, but uses a third-person view when discussing the \u201cnameless girl\u201d (6), the subject of the portrait. It is still obvious to anyone aware of Christina Rossetti\u2019s history that it is about herself, but Rossetti refers to her as this other being, separating herself from said subject. She even goes as far as to have the speaker refer to themself as a part of a \u201cwe,\u201d extending the distance Rossetti puts between herself and the subject. This seems to be almost a form of dissociation for Rossetti, as one would dissociate to deal with trauma, she dissociates through her poetry. \u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio\u201d also addresses the cruelty of the artists\u2019 gaze directly, while \u201cIntrospective\u201d moreso deals with the resulting psychological effects dealt with by Rossetti. Both are integral to Rossetti\u2019s story, yet \u201cIntrospective\u201d certainly paints the picture of Rossetti\u2019s suffering clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no secret that Christina Rossetti\u2019s life was made difficult by her brothers\u2019 use of her as a painting subject, after all her poem, \u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio,\u201d illustrates the plight of an artist\u2019s subject. I feel as though many could point to this poem as best portraying her struggle, yet I believe Rossetti\u2019s poem … Continue reading \u201cIntrospection\u201d Vs. \u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}