Christine de Pisan in her Querrel de la Rose criticizes Roman de la Rose, which is a love poem. This poem "describes the ultimately successful quest of a lover for the mystical and fleshly Rose". Christine is totally against the poem and attacks of strongly.



It is marvelous how Christine de Pisan starts her writing in Quarrel de la Rose. She starts showing you modesty of her self, and appears very calm. She stings you then in a sweet style illuminating why is she against the work she is criticizing.



Her modesty can be seen, or better to call her understatement, in page 125. When you continue reading and you reach the middle of it, you will see how gradually transforms from calmness to showing strong protest, which is covered up with polite style. Still the ironic tone she uses exposes her disapproval. An example for her emotional ironical tone would be seen in page 128, which she dedicates to discuss the issue of women in the work she is criticizing.



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Title: Quarrel De La Rose
Approximate Word Count: 392
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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