Jonty Claypole
π€ SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Jenny falls asleep and he goes into this sort of reverie about what makes a woman become a prostitute.
And he leaves a coin for her.
He's a guardian angel and goes.
And at one point in the poem, he compares Jenny to his own cousin, Nell.
The line goes, of the same lump, as it is said, for honour and dishonour made.
So we've got this relationship of two sisters, one of whom is honourable, one of whom is dishonourable.
We've got the kind of Laura-Lizzie relationship.
It goes on, two sister vessels, here is one.
It makes a...
Boom, Goblin of the Sun, he writes.
So we've got our goblin there in Dante Rossetti's poem.
So I think Christina Rossetti's leaving all these little clues that this is a poem which is a sort of repast to the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and their very aggressive sexuality and the way they treated the women around them.
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love that.
Yeah, I love it.
The idea that Lizzie is also Elizabeth Browning.
Let's keep pulling out threads.
So we've got this kind of literary rivalry element.
We've got the riposte to pre-Raphaelite toxic masculinity.