rossetti's poetry is so lovely to read. she explores so many different themes, structures, & perspectives and i kinda envy how adaptable her poetry is, like how she uses the usual techniques but in ways i hadn't seen before. there are poems that are self-reflective, poems that show her own viewpoints about various historical events, about marriage and love and religion. she tends to use a lot of techniques to do with sound, like alliteration and plosives and rhythm, so you won't get as much out of the collection if you don't hear it out loud. if you don't want to do that then i'm telling you to go and read goblin market, no thank you john, and maude clare aloud at least. very fun. that sounds sarcastic but it's not. like i studied these poems for a level and those were the three i liked the most. plus they were easy to remember because of their rhythms/rhymes/sounds. the worst poem is in the round tower at jhansi i say this as a south asian. it's racist. fuck the british empire i dont care if the story the poem was based on is fake, take your colonialism and shove it up your asses

ok wait here's a better (short) list of poems you should read if you're not gonna read the whole thing:
goblin market
from the antique 
no, thank you, john
maude clare
remember