In the poem “Birthday” written by Rossetti by saying
“my heart is like a rainbow shell” it makes me think she is accepting the stereotype of women as it is quoting she is shy also the author is accepting the stereotype as she is putting images that represents fertility. “Carve it in doves and pomegranates”. Which means seeds meaning seeds make people fertile. Also when she says “ raise me a dais of silk and down”. Which means she would stay at home if she was raised properly. However she is not accepting the stereotype of women as she wrote the poem and women were not allowed to write in them days so if she did accept the stereotype of women.
The speaker accepts and rejects the stereotype of woman.
In the poem Villegiature the speaker does not accept the stereotype of women as she puts the man as the object
“my window framed in pear tree bloom” which puts a man in a frame and in the 1914’s the females were the object.
The stereotype in “ How do I love thee” is masculine at the beginning of the poem “I love thee to the dept and breath and height” by saying that she’s masculine as she is using measuring words which measuring words associated with the stereotypical logical men. But half way into the poem she quotes “ I love thee with the breath, smiles tears with all my life” which means she has changed her stereotype to women in the 1914’s showed their emotions she is using a stereotypically feminine way i.e emotions to express her feelings in conclusion I think the speakers accepts and rejects the stereotype of women.
In the poem “A woman to her lover”, she rejects the stereotype of women in the first verse because she quotes,
“I refuse you” which women where meant to obey the men.
Also in the second verse she also rejects the men too because she says “She is no doll” by saying that she’s rejecting because women are meant be the object by saying “Abasment” she is also rejecting the stereotype because she is putting the men down and Victorian women where meant to be timid and not saying anything nasty, however in the last verse the speaker does say “O husband” which may make her timid and weak however she does say at the start of verse four “But lover if you ask me “ shes implying what she wants from him, so in this poem “A women to her lover” it is rejecting the stereotype of women.
In the poem “First love” by John Clare the speaker accepts her as he doesn’t have a voice also the speaker said she’s a flower . However he cannot resist temptation meaning his becoming a 1914’s stereotype of women, because he says
“My legs refuse to walk away”, so my conclusion that first love accepts the stereotype of women.
Overall I come to the conclusion that the pre 1914’s Poets accept and reject the stereotype of women of there times as they do some stuff what stereotypically women were meant to but other times they don’t.
