In ‘From the Antique’, she detachedly says; ‘none would miss me… much less would care or weep’. This is potentially because she did not marry in her life, and as a Victorian woman, this mean she did not have traditional value.

The whole poem is cold and emotionless, reflecting her detachment from societal values, but also her continuing feeling of worthlessness as an unmarried woman, in a time where a woman’s value came from her ability to keep a house clean and have children.

In the poem, life goes on after her desired disappearance. This reflects her feeling of insignificance, and her desire for not the world to end, but for her life to have never existed.

Her references of the seasons "Still the seasons would come and go" highlights the cyclical structure nature possesses, suggesting that it is untainted.

Rosettis use of nature could suggest how the idea of traditional gender roles are so deeply integrated into nature that shes sees it as an unbreakable cycles such as, those of the seasons.

She also mentions the 'doubly blank' life of a woman, with her 'wishing' to be 'a man' or simply 'were nothing'. This miserable language, and the repetition of 'wish' creates a more emotional tone in Rossetti's writing.

In Rossetti's poetry often explores the role of women and how they are often overlooked in a victorian society. Rossetti uses the poem From the Antique to expose how women often feel lost and do not feel worthy in this patriarchal society.

The women feel "weary" and "doubly blank" implying that they feel lost in the world and cannot find a path in society.