Remember

• Remember


  Poem by Christina Rossetti about remembrance
• Poem


  • Written in sonnet form (14 lines, single stanza)
  • Uses iambic pentameter
  • Petrarchan rhyme scheme (abba abba cdc ece)
• Line 1: "Remember me when I'm gone away"


  Speaker is anxious about being remembered by their lover after they die
• Line 2: "gone far away into the silent land"
• Line 3: "when you can no more hold me by the hand"

  Emphasises the romantic love and companionship the speaker craves, but recognises they will no longer have after death
• Line 4: "nor I have turned to go yet turning to stay"
• Anaphora


  • Repetition of "remember" as an imperative
• Line 5: "when no more day by day"


  Repetition refers to the mundane daily life the speaker wants their lover to continue remembering them in
• Line 6: "you tell me of the future that you planned"


  Alludes to the passive Victorian woman's role, with the lover planning the future
• Line 7: "only remember me"
• Line 9: "if you should forget me for a while"


  Volta - the speaker seems to accept the possibility of being forgotten
• Line 10: "do not grieve"


  Imperative showing the speaker's acceptance and desire for the lover not to mourn excessively
• Lines 11-12: "the darkness and corruption leave a vestige... forget and smile"

  Oxymoron and sibilance show the speaker's acceptance of being forgotten, and desire for the lover to move on and be happy
• Remember


  Poem by Christina Rossetti about remembrance
• Poem


  • Written in sonnet form (14 lines, single stanza)
  • Uses iambic pentameter
  • Petrarchan rhyme scheme (abba abba cdc ece)
• Line 1: "Remember me when I'm gone away"


  Speaker is anxious about being remembered by their lover after they die
• "Gone away"


  Euphemism for death
• "Silent land"


  Personification of death as a vast boundary between life and death
• "You can no more hold me by the hand"

  Emphasises the loss of physical companionship after death
• "I have turned to go yet turning to stay"


  Oxymoron showing the speaker's conflicted feelings about death
• "You tell me of the future that you planned"


  Alludes to the passive Victorian woman's role in the household
• Caesura


  "Only remember me"
• "Darkness and corruption"


  Negative terms referring to mourning, which the speaker doesn't want the lover to experience excessively
• "Forget and smile"


  Oxymoron showing the speaker's acceptance of the lover moving on
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