Complete Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Analysis of The Blessed Damozel Stanza One Unfortunately, this is just a dream and after returning to reality the damsel breaks down crying once more at their separation. The two will be able to finally live in the peace and solitude they did not get to experience on Earth. They will meet the Virgin Mary and she will introduce them to Christ who will bless their love. Once her beloved arrives in heaven she will show him all there is to see.

She describes the love that the two share and how soon, because they have both prayed for it, they will be reunited. The damsel, sounding like bird song, speaks out loud for all to hear. They pine for one another across the extraordinarily vast expanse between the “ramparts” of “God’s house,” on which she is leaning, and Earth. There is a lover, who’s lines are written in the first person and contained within parenthesis, which is heartbroken by her departure. It soon becomes clear that she left someone on Earth.

She is breathtakingly beautiful but also melancholy. ‘The Blessed Damozel’ begins with the speaker describing a woman who, leaning out from heaven, can be seen holding lilies in her hands. “ The Blessed Damozel” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is a ballad that is dedicated to the love between a woman trapped in heaven and a man stuck on Earth.

Complete Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti