Cousin kate

Cousin Kate

The poem ‘Cousin Kate’ is about a young cottage maiden who falls pregnant b the ‘Lord of the manor’, she thought he loved her but he didn’t and when he found out she was pregnant he ‘changed [her] like a glove’, now he is marrying her cousin, (Kate) ‘bound you with his ring’ and she is left with no’ one because as she pregnant and not married no-one wants to speak to her and everyone where she lives thinks she disgusting an ‘unclean thing’
The poem is written by Christina Rossetti and is set in the 19th century; the setting is a small plantation in a small village. The main themes within ‘Cousin Kate’ are love and relationships and how people can get hurt and let down easily by the other person. The cottage maiden’s love I think was naïve but I think she did truly love him, he obviously didn’t feel the same way and used her for what he could get from her, and he succeeded, he took he virginity from her and thought nothing of ending the r...