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APPLITN OF LBIAN AND GAY “QUEER” CRICISM
It is also very, very gay.
Bis, I uldn’t stop hearg that all-too faiar voice, tellg me to “stop makg everythg gay. Their iend Jeanie has done this before them, wh the rult that she “who for joys bris hope to have / Fell sick and died / In her gay prime” (ll. ” In the poems Gobl Market and No, Thank You, John, Christa Rossetti subverts the ia that female characters mt rema submissive and rigned to accept nventnal heterosexual, male-domated relatnships which were promoted patriarchal Victorian society, and should stead embrace pennce, sisterhood and homosexualy.
” Although a fay un nsistg only of men, and ed homosexual relatnships between men, would be equally as unnventnal as Rossetti’s prentatn of Lra and Lizzie’s fay un, aterni the Victorian era were wily accepted, cludg the Pre-Raphael and the Freemasons. One uld go as far as to say that Rossetti’s female characters engage homosexualy and reject men both romantilly and sexually altogether, which centr them as the ma foc of Rossetti’s love poetry.