Remember

• What themes can link to remember?

  death and disease
• Remember was a sonnet so it was written like a Petrarchan sonnet that originally men wrote and performed
• Something heroic about the way Rosetti presents relationships and sacrifice in remember
• Using a sonnet to sound masculine
• Rosetti looks forward to death for liberation into the spiritual realm as Ibsen is more concerned about the here and now
• In remember death represents the absence of each other, but not their love
• Impracticality of grieving when death is so natural and a part of life, Christianity and the afterlife as a comfort and their inevitable destination to Rosetti
• What poem could Remember link to?

  Up-hill, song, In the round tower
• "It will be too late to counsel then or pray" even men have no power against death
• death is an equaliser at the end of life, hence why remember has an authoritative tone
• Remember could also link into the idea that homemaking and children isn't the only thing women should leave as their legacy, but all they think too
• poem from the perspective of dying rather than being left behind
• asks her beloved to remember her when she is dead because that is all he will be able to do for her
• The speaker assures the beloved that although she wants to be remembered it isn't necessary and all she wants is for him to be happy