"The Blessed Damozel"

1. The physical description of the Damozel in the first two stanzas emphasizes what aspects of this dead soul?
2. What are the purposes of the passages in parentheses?
3. Literature is full of poems in which the male speaker mourns the death, usually untimely, of his lover. This poem clearly is part of that tradition, yet Rossetti also alters it in significant ways. How so?
4. While this is not a dramatic monologue, the speaker of the poem arguably reveals more about himself than he means to. What do we learn about him from the content of this vision/daydream? Is this a more positive portrayal of male attitudes towards women than we've seen in "Locksley Hall" and "My Last Duchess"?