Song by Christina Rossetti

Sep 20, 2012, 06:20 AM

The narrator in Christina Rossetti's "Song" asks that her lover make no spectacle of devotion after her death. There is no need for singing "sad songs," or planting "roses" or a "cypress tree." Principally, the narrator believes these events to be of little consequence because, as a dead person, she cannot receive these examples of gratitude. After death, she will experience no "shadows" or "rain" or "the nightingale" singing a song embodying her lover's sorrows; the narrator will experience no earthly events.

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