These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. These traits of absolutism and renunciation would stand in direct opposition to an approach to poetry that stresses an opening up of meaning and encourages active participation in the object world that would lead to social change. Because this union is the ultimate goal of life to Christians, Rossetti’s poetry often implies a renunciation of the world. After all, a strictly Christian belief system tends to close off meaning and desire as it envisions a concrete object in Christ who would provide ultimate fulfillment through spiritual union after death. One might worry that a devotional poet like Rossetti would alienate some students and limit possibilities for finding meaning. Despite Christina Rossetti’s ties with the Pre-Raphaelite movement,1 her aesthetic owes more to the principles of nineteenth-century Tractarian writers like John Keble, Isaac Williams, and John Henry Newman.
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