Cousin Kate by Christina Rosetti and The Choosing by Liz Lochhead Essay

Cousin Kate by Christina Rosetti/The Choosing by Liz LochheadCousin Kate is a poem, written in the Victorian times by a womancalled Christina Rosetti. Christina was a very religious woman, shewanted eventually to be a nun, and she did voluntary work at a Londonreform rest home for young prostitutes.The poem is about a young cottage maiden who falls in love with alord. The lord changed her like a hand, this suggests that the lordcould get anyone he wanted. The story is about a cottage maiden whofalls in love with a lord, he praises her and treats her like a queen.The lord then falls in love with the cottage maidens cousin (cousinKate). They get married, the only problem is Kate cant have childrenand the lord will need a son to take over his role of lord. Yet Ivea gift you have not got when the cottage maiden says this she meansher child, she has a son to the lord. She was not married to the lordwhen they were having a sexual relationship so she is seen to beunclean. The neighbours c all you good and pure, call me an outcastthing this quotation s...