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Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"

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Sonnets Are Full of Love

Christina rosetti wrote a sonnet about maternal love, usually associated with erotic or romantic love. She seems to subverting conventional expectations and elevating a more stable, enduring and grounding kind of love. And we do see that in this poem when she says, the love of a motherte whose blessed glow transcends the laws of time and change immortal life and death. For those who long for an enduring love, a not to romantic love, but turn to your first love, your heart's quiet home.

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