ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dante Gabriel Rossetti, original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, (born May 12, 1828, London, England-died April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent), English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner.

Detailed explanation-2: -His poem “The Blessed Damozel” was first composed in 1847, when he was nineteen, and he continued to revise it until just before his death. William Graham, one of the artist’s most faithful patrons, commissioned a painting of its subject in 1871.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel” is about a woman looking down upon her lover from heaven. The woman wants to be with her lover for eternity but knows that it can never happen. She feels that if the two of them unite in one and pray, then every wish can come true.

Detailed explanation-4: -’The Blessed Damozel’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is a traditional ballad that alternates its meter between iambic tetrameter, made of four beats per line, and iambic trimeter, containing three unstressed followed by stressed, beats per line. Each stanza of the poem is a sestet, meaning that it contains six lines.