"A Helpmeet For Him" by Christina Rossetti
"A Helpmeet For Him" by Christina Rossetti

“A Helpmeet For Him”

Christina Rossetti * Track #202 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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"A Helpmeet For Him" by Christina Rossetti

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This is a complex poem that, to be fully understood, needs explanation of Rossetti’s contradictory views on gender and womanhood.

When a teenager Rossetti veered towards feminism, and toyed with the idea of supporting women’s votes and even women serving as Members of Parliament.

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“A Helpmeet For Him” Annotated

Woman was made for man's delight,--
Charm, O woman! Be not afraid!
His shadow by day, his moon by night,
Woman was made.

Her strength with weakness is overlaid;
Meek compliances veil her might;
Him she stays, by whom she is stayed.

World-wide champion of truth and right,
Hope in gloom, and in danger aid,
Tender and faithful, ruddy and white,
Woman was made.

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