Christina Rossetti makes fun of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” in her piece “There is a Budding Morrow in the Midnight.” She attacks the loveless, depressed, and lonely state of “The Raven” with passion and beauty. She taunts “The Raven” in her reversed interpretation of its characteristics.
The theme of “The Raven” is found in its continual use of the phrase “never more.” The despair of the phrase fits perfectly with the subject’s growing deficit of love, sanity, and soul. “The [Raven’s]” main topic is one of eternal and entire loss.
Rossetti attacks Poe’s sense of depression with an amoretto description of love that surpasses the loss of “sweet things.” While the main point of “The Raven” is to demonstrate that all things are lost and darkness stays, Rossetti describes how beauty passes, but love does not. Christina Rossetti turns the phrase “never more” into “evermore.”
“The Raven” is assaulted for its eternal doom, as Rossetti composed a mocking poem that is a reciprocal of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic. Her ridicule of Poe’s famous verses dig through many layers, from the setting to the interpretation. Christina Rossetti’s poem “There is a Budding Morrow in the Midnight” is a derision of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
"There is a Budding Morrow in the Midnight" by Christina Rosetti
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