The Key-Note

Christina Rossetti * Track #141 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

The Key-Note by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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This haunting and beautiful poem is typical of Christina Rossetti, with its mournful, depressed tone in the first stanza, but positivity represented by the singing “Robin” in the second. The poems ends on a questionning rather than hopeful note, with no resolution to the question “why not I?”

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Where are the songs I used to know,
Where are the notes I used to sing?
I have forgotten everything
I used to know so long ago;
Summer has followed after Spring;
Now Autumn is so shrunk and sere,
I scarcely think a sadder thing
Can be the Winter of my year.

Yet Robin sings through Winter's rest,
When bushes put their berries on;
While they their ruddy jewels don,
He sings out of a ruddy breast;
The hips and haws and ruddy breast
Make one spot warm where snowflakes lie
They break and cheer the unlovely rest
Of Winter's pause--and why not I?

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