Remember

• Remember' - (title)

  an imperative showing desperation
• line 1: Remember

  the repetition shows that they are anxious about being remembered
• line 1-2: gone away, gone far away

  euphemism for death and the repetition emphasises the distance between life and death. The speaker is afraid their lover will forget them when they die. Their is a soft tone and introduces the idea that the Speaker cannot say the word death.
• line 2: the silent land

  euphemism for death making it sound calmer and lovelier. personification emphasizes the boundary between life and death.
• line 3: when you can

  line 6: you tell me

  Direct Address to her lover, introduces the focus of the poem.
• line 3: no more

  line 5: no more day by day

  repetition highlights her fear but also the effect on her lover as she will be absent from their daily life.
• line 3: hold me by the hand

  alliteration suggests a romantic love and companionship and indicates she will lose physical closeness
• line 4: to go yet turning stay

  Oxymoron, she is conflicted
• line 5: Remember me when

  anaphoric reference of the imperative, she is desperate
• Line 7-8: Only remember me; you understand

  The adverb reduces the imperative (it has a softer tone. the enjambment emphasises the flow of a new idea / the change in tone / there is a tone of hopelessness.
• what is the effect of enjambment, lines 7-14

  a stream of consciousness which mirrors the continuity of memory and how the speaker wishes to be remembered continuously after death instead of her partner experiencing grief and suffering. flows easily, no abrupt stop, she wants her passing to have no major impact and allow his life to continue.
• ine 9 - Yet if

  line 9-10 Forget me .... remember

  9 - the conjunction coupled with the conditional indicates a volta in her mindset - contemplative

  
  

  10 - oxymoron, she understands that he will have to forget her as part of the grieving process before her remembers her again.
• 10 - do not grieve

  Imperative, she thinks of him and proves they have a type of non selfish love.
• 11 - darkness and corruption

  abstract nouns - connote negativity
• line 13 - better by far you should

  line 14 - then that you should

  superlative - very advisory tone and a tone of reconciliatory. plosive indicates the break away from the traditional rhyme scheme of the sonnet expresses the break away from the expectations the readers have; a breakaway from selfishness.
• line 13-14 forget and smile

  remember and be sad

  the first oxymoron suggests she will not be resentful if her lover prioritizes his happiness and chooses to forget her. The following antithesis/oxymoron and sibilance suggest an element of sacrifice as she wants the opposite for him and they sacrifice their own motives for their partners.
• line 9 shift in tone

  she doesn't want his life to stop once she dies and prioritises her lover's happiness
• what is a Petrarchan sonnet

  A Petrarchan sonnet has 14 lines with one octave in which the speaker expresses her concern and despire and a sestet in which she expresses the sacrifice she is willing to take and becomes contemplative.
• The use of first person

  personal intimate nature as she expresses her fears.
• effect of Iambic Pentameter

  the control contrasts the lack of control in death and the heartbeat mirrors her contemplative nature as she goes between love and loss.
• themes


  TIME, LOVE. GRIEF, SELFLESSNESS, MORALITY, DEATH, LOSS, AFTERLIFE, SADNESS, MEMORY, REFLECTION, FORGIVENESS.
• What could you compare it to?


  do not go gentle into that good night, poem at thirty nine, piano