Rossetti’s_Choices

Rossetti’s Choices Every person decides on a way to live their life. They choose how they will carry themselves through life and with that choice they create opinions that will be used to make the decisions that are best for their lifestyle. In the House of Life, Dante Gabriel Rossetti shows three choices on how to live this mortal life on earth. Explaining these choices, he uses hypothetical situations of people living each way of life. Each poem offers to the reader a way to live during their time on this planet. This paper will explain and compare a life of careless merrymaking, of cautious fear, and of pursuing truth that Rossetti has proposed in his literature. The first choice speaks of forgetting about the pointless struggles in life and indulging in drinking and lovemaking. It states that even if you try to make a difference you will make no impact on the earth. This statement implies that even though society and technology advance, morals and basic knowledge will only decay. This means you should not try to better the planet, but instead forget your problems and live for the moment. The poem says that many will work rossetti, choices, life, man, way, truth, live, even, try, should, knowledge, fear, choice, time, poem, person, make, living, hard, careless, better, worked, while, understand, through, though, third, tells, speaks, second, says, pointless, planet, own, others