Upon reading Christina Rossetti's In an Artist's Studio, I have to say that I find the titular artist rather disturbing. Whether it was accidental or not, Rossetti has made him into a perverted stalker who single-mindedly paints different portraits of this one woman.
The most telling clue can be seen in the way the poem describes how the woman is portrayed: "not as she is, but as she fills his dream". This suggests that the artist and woman have never met, and that he regularly fantacizes about her. The poem also uses a form of repetition by having as much as 2-3 lines saying essentially the same thing, but with different words. This pulls the reader in and gives some insight into the artist's apparent fixation with this mystery woman.
The most telling clue can be seen in the way the poem describes how the woman is portrayed: "not as she is, but as she fills his dream". This suggests that the artist and woman have never met, and that he regularly fantacizes about her. The poem also uses a form of repetition by having as much as 2-3 lines saying essentially the same thing, but with different words. This pulls the reader in and gives some insight into the artist's apparent fixation with this mystery woman.
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