Body’s Beauty
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"Body’s Beauty" is a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that forms part of his poetic sequence *The House of Life*, exploring themes of physical allure, desire, and mortality.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Body’s Beauty canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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poem ⓘ sonnet ⓘ |
| alludesTo | Lilith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edenic imagery
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snake imagery ⓘ symbolism of hair as entrapment ⓘ |
| author | Dante Gabriel Rossetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterDepicted | Lilith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dante Gabriel Rossetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1870 ⓘ |
| form | Petrarchan sonnet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | sonnet sequence component ⓘ |
| hasCompanionWork | Soul’s Beauty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | frequently discussed in studies of Rossetti’s erotic and spiritual poetics ⓘ |
| hasImagery |
enchanted hair
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mirror imagery ⓘ serpentine imagery ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
critique of purely physical love
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exploration of femme fatale archetype ⓘ reflection on the soul’s peril before beauty ⓘ |
| includedInCollection |
Poems (1870)
NERFINISHED
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The House of Life (sequence) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Pre-Raphaelite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| mythologicalContext | Jewish folklore ⓘ |
| pairedWith | Soul’s Beauty ⓘ |
| partOf | The House of Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | Victorian era ⓘ |
| revisedIn | 1881 ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | abbaabbacdcdee ⓘ |
| sequencePosition | one of the later sonnets in The House of Life ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
the body as a site of temptation
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the destructive power of beauty ⓘ |
| theme |
danger of seduction
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duality of body and soul ⓘ eroticism ⓘ fatal attraction ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ mortality ⓘ physical beauty ⓘ sensual desire ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| tone |
foreboding
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sensuous ⓘ |
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