What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm
me through,
Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold whatever I
do;
Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst
of all.
–“What Would I Give?,”
Christina Rossetti
Which idea from Shelley’s "A Defence of Poetry” best connects to Rossetti’s poem?
Poetry “marries . . . grief and pleasure.”
Poetry “exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful.”
Poetry “redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.”
