Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Portrayal of Jenny: “So pure,—so fall’n!”

“Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Portrayal of Jenny: ‘So pure,—so fall’n!’” analyzes the poem of one of the most prominent authors of the second half of the nineteenth century, the period of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Because of their specific orientation towards the interpretation of arts in general, Jenny serves as a prime example of merging artistically and visually beautiful with the raw and candid. Speaking of the woman of the streets, the poem is told through a nameless narrator who changes his opinion of the prostitute through the poem, condemning man in the end, which serves as a critical mirror of the society. The essay discusses Jenny’s nature attempting to show it for what it really is, and the narrator’s catharsis as he realizes that the false accusations he was making of Jenny were a product of the society, who he condemns in the end for forcing Jenny to become a prostitute