Body’s Beauty

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"Body’s Beauty" is a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that forms part of his poetic sequence *The House of Life*, exploring themes of physical allure, desire, and mortality.

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instanceOf literaryWork ⓘ
poem ⓘ
sonnet ⓘ
alludesTo Lilith ⓘ
associatedWith Edenic imagery ⓘ
snake imagery ⓘ
symbolism of hair as entrapment ⓘ
author Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⓘ
characterDepicted Lilith ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
createdBy Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⓘ
firstPublication 1870 ⓘ
form Petrarchan sonnet ⓘ
genre sonnet sequence component ⓘ
hasCompanionWork Soul’s Beauty ⓘ
hasCriticalReception frequently discussed in studies of Rossetti’s erotic and spiritual poetics ⓘ
hasImagery enchanted hair ⓘ
mirror imagery ⓘ
serpentine imagery ⓘ
hasInterpretation critique of purely physical love ⓘ
exploration of femme fatale archetype ⓘ
reflection on the soul’s peril before beauty ⓘ
includedInCollection Poems (1870) ⓘ
The House of Life (sequence) ⓘ
linked to: The House of Life
language English ⓘ
literaryMovement Pre-Raphaelite ⓘ
meter iambic pentameter ⓘ
mythologicalContext Jewish folklore ⓘ
pairedWith Soul’s Beauty ⓘ
partOf The House of Life ⓘ
period Victorian era ⓘ
revisedIn 1881 ⓘ
rhymeScheme abbaabbacdcdee ⓘ
sequencePosition one of the later sonnets in The House of Life ⓘ
subjectMatter the body as a site of temptation ⓘ
the destructive power of beauty ⓘ
theme danger of seduction ⓘ
duality of body and soul ⓘ
eroticism ⓘ
fatal attraction ⓘ
moral corruption ⓘ
mortality ⓘ
physical beauty ⓘ
sensual desire ⓘ
temptation ⓘ
tone foreboding ⓘ
sensuous ⓘ

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