Write About the Ways Rossetti Tells the Story in the First 50 Lines of the Convent Threshold? + Some Readers Find That the Convent Threshold 'a Most Uncomfortable Reading Experience' Do You Think the Poem's an Uncomfortable Reading Experience?

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Chelbie Seed Write about the ways Rossetti tells the story in the first 50 lines of The Convent Threshold? The convent threshold revolves around the recurring themes of redemption and love. The Protagonist wishes to be apart of the religious, pure world as well as keep her love however, she must be virtuous and pure to be with the convent in which the first 50 lines explore she is not. Christina Rossetti presents the story through the protagonist eyes that are coloured with her thoughts and feelings of the battle keeping an relationship with both her lover and God. This to and fro thoughts are exposed through a dramatic monologue and Iambic pentameter followed with stressed and unstressed words. As well, there is a lot of conflict imagery being explored in the first 50 lines that are immediately contrasted with an harmonious, peaceful symbols creating a balance that Rossetti uses to string in the readers and the listener in the poem about heaven. With the first line of the first stanza, Rossetti portrays the theme of conflict and love occurring throughout the whole poem, she presents this with a violent imagery of the use of the word “blood”. “There's blood between us, love, my love, There's father's blood, there's brothers blood;” Using this line to begin with almost acts like an introductory line forecasting the rest of what is expected to come however acknowledging this, Rossetti not tell us why that there has been a family rivalry engaging the reader to read further. Repeating the word blood stresses that thing have turned into havoc and also builds dramatic tension which the protagonist “cannot pass” Using this helps create pace and creates an image into the readers mind that there has been a violent affair but this could also mean family blood. This could be interpreted as a disagreement within the family about the protagonist's decision however, the

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