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The visual aspect of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetry
Fořtová, Linda ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
This MA thesis is concerned with the analysis of three poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The theoretical basis of this work is the theory of "ut pictura poesis" which examines the relationship between poetry and fine arts. In the case of Rossetti, this theory can be easily applied since Rossetti was not only a poet but mainly a painter. "The Blessed Damozel" which is the first poem to be analyzed, exists as a painting as well as a musical composition by Claude Debussy. The second poem in this thesis is "The Card Dealer" which was inspired by an actual painting by Theodor Van Holst, a copy of which Rossetti himself owned, though the original visual image is considerably modified in the poem. The last poem is "My Sister's Sleep" whose dramatic elements of individual scenes are quite outstanding. Just like the two preceding poems, "My Sister's Sleep" uses "painterly techniques" as well (the spatial composition of figures on the scene, emphasis on details, "painting" the scene and atmosphere, characterization, gestures, colours, materials, slowed-down tempo, general stasis of depiction, elongation of the tense moment to which the entire poem aspires, symbolism, mysticism, etc), which in effect create an easily imaginable mental picture that can be compared to actual Pre-Raphaelite paintings. These (and...
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