Write a paragraph that gives and explains several examples of imagery and allusion in Rossetti's Sonnet. Include one example from the octave, and one from the sestet.

In "The Kiss" by Rossetti, Rossetti uses an allusion to Orpheus in the octave and an imagery for love in the sestet. Orpheus was a musician who could not get over his wife's death. He loved her very much and wanted her alive again. Rossetti uses an allusion to him to show how great the kiss the narrator experienced was compared to how good the kiss that "Orpheus longed for when he wooed the half-drawn hungering face with that last lay." (l.7-8) Rossetti uses  imagery in the sestet for the feeling of love. The narrator "was a child beneath her touch." (l.9) He used imagery to show a sensory experience. The experience that Rossetti is trying to demonstrate when he felt "like a child beneath her touch" was a feeling of weakness for her. Rossetti uses an allusion to Opheus in the octave, and imagery in the sestet to describe feeling weak for someone.