A critic's view of Rossetti's poem "Winter; My Secret"

Suzanne William's sees Rosetti's poem "Winter; My Secret"as Rosetti's way of rebuking what she is expected to do in her society; to get married, reveal herself and have more children. The critique states that "women can only assert power, ownership and control over something as ephemeral as a secret" and so Rosetti uses the metaphor of Winter and her secret to show her sceptiscm "about relationships between men and women". The critic suggest that Rossetti uses the description of the seasons to create a lexical link between the passings of time and how she does not feel trust in the perhaps more fertile seasons of May and Spring.