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The Blessed Damozel | Study Guide

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Overview

Author

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Year Published

1850

Type

Poem

Genre

Religion

Perspective and Narrator

The poem is written primarily in third-person omniscient point of view with first-person narration from the damozel's lover enclosed in parentheses.

Tense

The poem is written in the past tense. The damozel speaks in the future tense as she describes what she wants to happen in the future.

About the Title

The blessed damozel is a young woman, or damsel, who has died and is now in Heaven.

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