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Sister Maude

Sister Maude. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Learning Objectives. AO1 : respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations.

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Sister Maude

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  1. Sister Maude Christina Georgina Rossetti

  2. Learning Objectives • AO1: respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations. • AO2: explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings.

  3. Sister Maude • Who told my mother of my shame, Who told my father of my dear? Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who lurked to spy and peer. • Cold he lies, as cold as stone, With his clotted curls about his face: The comeliest corpse in all the world And worthy of a queen's embrace. • You might have spared his soul, sister, Have spared my soul, your own soul too: Though I had not been born at all, He'd never have looked at you. • My father may sleep in Paradise, My mother at Heaven-gate: But sister Maude shall get no sleep Either early or late. • My father may wear a golden gown, My mother a crown may win; If my dear and I knocked at Heaven-gate Perhaps they'd let us in: But sister Maude, oh sister Maude, Bide you with death and sin.

  4. Questions, questions Who is the narrator of the poem? What has happened? What is the relationship in the poem?

  5. Sister Maude • Who told my mother of my shame, Who told my father of my dear? Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who lurked to spy and peer. What are you doing if you lurk?

  6. Cold he lies, as cold as stone, With his clotted curls about his face: The comeliest corpse in all the world And worthy of a queen's embrace. What do these mean? What is the tone of voice needed to suggest the correct feelings and attitude being conveyed?

  7. You might have spared his soul, sister, Have spared my soul, your own soul too: Though I had not been born at all, He'd never have looked at you.

  8. My father may sleep in Paradise, My mother at Heaven-gate: But sister Maude shall get no sleep Either early or late. What has happened to her parents?

  9. My father may wear a golden gown, My mother a crown may win; If my dear and I knocked at Heaven-gate Perhaps they'd let us in: But sister Maude, oh sister Maude, Bide you with death and sin. Why is this in italics?

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