Why are the poems, listed below, Pre-Raphaelite poetry? How do I use the poems as examples to explain? "The Blessed Damozel," Dante Gabriel...

The dominant characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite poetry
include, among others:

1. a Medieval emphasis oin
   setting, mood, and vocabulary and subjects that are correspondingly morbid, melancholy
   or poignant;


2. Spenserian-like emphasis on vowel sounds
   and elaborate psychological states and complex poetic structures;
   


3. symbols that are both mysterious and tending toward the
   supernatural (ironically) coupled with fidelity of realism emphasizing color and
   light/darkness;


4. and an emphasis on description that
   results in a corresponding emphasis on
   length.

"The Blessed Damozel" by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti is on the subject of unrealized love broken off by the death of
the blessed damozel. This subject is a melancholy and morbid one replete with detailed
description, for example:

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She had three lilies in her hand,
And
the stars in her hair were seven.
Her robe, ungirt from clasp to
hem,
No wrought flowers did adorn,
But a white rose of Mary's
gift,
For service meetly worn;
Her hair that lay along her
back
Was yellow like ripe
corn.

These features already
mark this poem as Pre-Raphaelite. The dependence on rich vowels confirms this. Consider
the richness of open vowel sounds in the opening
lines:

The
blessed damozel leaned out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes
were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at
even;

The subject of "In an
Artist's Studio" is a melancholy one accompanied by Medieval allusions in the paintings
in which the artist immortalizes the "One face [that] looks out from all his canvases":
she appears as a queen, a girl in summer greens, a saint, an angel. Christina Rossetti
makes her points through the use of reference to light and dark as she writes of "day
and night," "moon and joyful ... light," "Not wan," "sorrow dim," and "hope shone
bright." These features alone place this poem within the Pre-Raphaelite
tradition.

"The Defence of Guenevere" by William Morris has a
clear-cut Medieval subject: Guenevere of King Arthur's Camelot. Guenevere's story can be
said to be both poignant and melancholy:

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As though she had had there a shameful
blow,
And feeling it shameful to feel ought but shame
All through
her heart, yet felt her cheek burned so,
...

Her story is told through
the complex use of dialogue and reveals a complex psychological state. These features,
especially when added to unusual and detailed description ("The wind was ruffling up the
narrow streak / Of river ..."), mark Morris's poem as Pre-Raphaelite. To explain the
poems’ Pre-Raphaelite characteristics, choose more quotes that exemplify the various
features that identify Pre-Raphaelite poetry as these quotations
do.