- Juxtaposition of love and pain
- Receive love based on self-worth
- Romantic love, outward expression, love can be clumsy
- Death, love, and the liminal space between them
Christina Rossetti: Who Shall Deliver Me?
- Who is this "someone"? Is it God, herself, or a man?
- Grace can take away our pain; very religious undertones
- Lots of self loathing and anger
- Similar themes as found in Paul's letter to the Romans
Emily Dickinson: "For each ecstatic instant" and "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant"
- Self-worth
- In "Ecstatic" Dickinson alleges that happiness is bittersweet; you can't know happiness without some pain, which is what Austen alleges in Persuasion
- Little structure
- Truth is ambiguous and can be many things
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