Jim Clark
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Heres a virtual movie of the great Christina Rossetti by far my favourite female poet reading one of my favourite poems of hers "Uphill" The poem is sort of childlike in its innocence a conversation between the states of life and death.After all none of us know know what to expect after we are dead for sure and we will all be like small children at the moment life leaves our body.The wonderfully imaginative and thoughtfull elequent Christina Rossetti utilises the magic of poetry to take us through this most final of imagined journeys,and one thing is for certain we can be very sure that at "Deaths Inn! there are beds for all who come.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem "Remember", and for the words of what became the popular Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter".
Rossetti was born in London and educated at home by her mother. Her siblings were the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, and Maria Francesca Rossetti. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples; their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori, author of The Vampyre.
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