Promises Like Pie-Crust

After reading the poem Promises Like Pie-Crust multiple times out loud I had no idea where to look first. I decided that I would do some background research on the author Christina Georgina Rossetti, and I came across that her father was a poet and her brother also became a poet. More importantly I found that she wrote heavily about religion so I decided to look at her poem through a religious lens first. I then proceeded to write the poem down and analyzed everything, first came the tittle I linked pie-crust to dough, which is like bread, in the Bible it is mentioned that Jesus broke bread apart to symbolize his sacrifice for mankind. Next I looked at the word promise though a religious lens, a promise to God is also called a covenant, and in the Bible there are four major covenants. All four of these covenants have one thing in common they are promising to be faithful to God in return for salvation. Rossetti writes, “For I cannot know your past, / and of mine what can you know?” …show more content…
The first line I noticed that the theory could be used is when the author writes, “Let us hold the die uncast,” (5). This line could be interpreted into not wanting to conform to social normality because uncast can mean not used therefore if they hold the die in its pure form it is not useful to society. The next line that has a strong anti-Marxist vibe to it is line twenty, “I should fret to break the chain:” this line could mean that she is afraid to be the weakest link in societies eyes and “break the chain.” The line twenty-three and twenty0four could be interpreted using anti-Marxist by saying that she disagrees that just because the mass of society thinks that they are useless does not mean hat they are in fact