Christina Rossetti
Poet
British · 19th century
English poet of the Victorian period known for devotional verse, ballads, and tightly made lyric poems, among them Goblin Market and Remember.
Connection to Taylor Swift
Surfaced by a community reader of ivy, who connects the song's guarded winter and feared spring to Rossetti's dramatic monologue Winter: My Secret.
Notable Works
- Goblin Market; Remember; Winter: My Secret
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Context within the Archive
Winter: My Secret
“Spring breaks loose, the time is near”
A reader connects the song to Christina Rossetti's dramatic monologue Winter: My Secret, in which the speaker guards a secret through the safety of winter and distrusts the spring as the season that might expose it. The same movement governs the affair here: concealment feels secure in the cold, and the coming of spring carries the threat of discovery.
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