Christina rossetti goblin market and other poems

The tone of Winter: My Secret is, without a doubt coy and teasing in nature. Modern readers can only guess at what she is hiding! While there are many interpretations and speculations associated with this poem, there exists no definitive explanation of the secret the speaker is so closely guarding. The poem, Winter: My Secret by Christina Rossetti, has confounded contemporary and modern critics as well as readers, as there is no apparent secret to which the poem can be related, and Rossetti’s verse resists revealing its subject. The most typical thing about this poem is Rossetti’s innovative experimentation with form, imagery, and metaphors, a trait for which she is known.

This collection largely consisted of non- devotional poetry and differs from the more religious verses on which Rossetti concentrated in her later publications.

Winter: My Secret was published in Rossetti’s first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems.