Shut out

Christina Rossetti * Track #36 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Shut out by Christina Rossetti

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This complex poem is open to many interpretations. Christina Rossetti clearly wished to leave it unclear for the reader to interpret. The garden could symbolise many things, but it immediately brings to mind the Garden of Eden and the fall of Adam and Eve who were expelled, as described in Genesis 3...

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The door was shut. I looked between
Its iron bars; and saw it lie,
My garden, mine, beneath the sky,
Pied with all flowers bedewed and green:

From bough to bough the song-birds crossed,
From flower to flower the moths and bees;
With all its nests and stately trees
It had been mine, and it was lost.

A shadowless spirit kept the gate,
Blank and unchanging like the grave.
I peering through said: "Let me have
Some buds to cheer my outcast state."

He answered not. "Or give me, then,
But one small twig from shrub or tree;
And bid my home remember me
Until I come to it again."

The spirit was silent; but he took
Mortar and stone to build a wall;
He left no loophole great or small
Through which my straining eyes might look:

So now I sit here quite alone
Blinded with tears; nor grieve for that,
For naught is left worth looking at
Since my delightful land is gone.

A violet bed is budding near,
Wherein a lark has made her nest:
And good they are, but not the best;
And dear they are, but not so dear.

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