rossetti

Jesse Cameron is the title of a poem in which the author idealizes rejection. Rosetti's poetry challenges the role of marriage and what was considered proper in Victorian society. Marriage was the one thing that kept society stable; raising a family was a duty and by participating in a healthy marriage and raising children a woman was making the most important contribution she could to the well-being of her country. Most women were dependent upon men for everything; food, shelter, protection. Few women worked, and only when they had to. Rosetti challenges that outlook here by focusing on a woman who'd rather reject a suitor than conform to what society expected from her, and in doing so challenges that a woman needed marriage to attain an identity.

this isnt a answer but another question linked to the original, but how does rossetti tell the story through out the poem??

Jesse Cameron is the title of a poem in which the author idealizes rejection. Rosetti's poetry challenges the role of marriage and what was considered proper in Victorian society. Marriage was the one thing that kept society stable; raising a family was a duty and by participating in a healthy marriage and raising children a woman was making the most important contribution she could to the well-being of her country. Most women were dependent upon men for everything; food, shelter, protection. Few women worked, and only when they had to. Rosetti challenges that outlook here by focusing on a woman who'd rather reject a suitor than conform to what society expected from her, and in doing so challenges that a woman needed marriage to attain an identity.

This focuses on much of the development of the novel.