Over looking Christina’s work in writing poems, I see Christina a woman, who writes poems not only because she wants to, but it is a way for her to express things rather then by actually saying it to someone. There are themes and some patterns through out her poems that she wrote. The themes in the poems come from what she actually feels and encountered. Christina came across two gentlemen that she felt that she can be with and have the same feelings towards each other. Christina’s faith in her religion made her change her mind in marrying. I think her reason why she did not marry either of them is because of her faith in God, thus making her write a number of poems of how she feels about love.

Remember   by Christina Rossetti

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

Some other themes in her poems were unhappiness and being alone. In her childhood years, Christina was home most of the time with her mother and her aunt. When Christina started to write poems, the themes in her poems were the times that she once had as a child wishing for things and the time to be able to do things different, like when the seasons change from time to time. One of the poems that she wrote was because she felt that she had loss some opportunity to do things that she dreamed in doing.

Another Spring   by Christina Rossetti

If I might see another Spring

  I’d not plant summer flowers and wait:

I’d have my crocuses at once,

My leafless pink mezereons,

  My chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet

  My white or azure violet,

Leaf-nested primrose; anything

  To blow at once not late.

If I might see another Spring

  I’d listen to the daylight birds

That build their nests and pair and sing,

Nor wait for mateless nightingale;

  I’d listen to the lusty herds,

  The ewes with lambs as white as snow,

I’d find out music in the hail

  And all the winds that blow.

If I might see another Spring—

  O stinging comment on my past

That all my past results in “if”—

  If I might see another Spring

I’d laugh to-day, to-day is brief;

  I would not wait for anything:

  I’d use to-day that cannot last,

  Be glad to-day and sing.

Times was tough for Christina even though she had friends because her friends only think of their future verses her future. Christina’s friends made her feel like her soul was departed from her, thus making some themes of her poems to be sad and mostly relates to death. The poem that best describes this is the “At Home.”