Remember - Christina Rossetti
- Created by: Ellie Baumber
- Created on: 10-03-16 10:28
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- Remember
- Form
- Written as a Petrarchan sonnet
- Iambic petramaeter
- Has an ABBA ABA octave and a CDE CDE setset
- Poem has a volta in which the speaker becomes more unaccepting of death
- Composed in 1849, and published in the non-devotional poems section of her works in 1862
- Often read at funerals and times of bereavement
- Themes
- Role of women
- Grief and bereavement
- Death and the inevitability of the decay of our physical body
- The higher power of love
- Seperation
- Tone
- The tone of the poem is reflective and reconciliatory on the topic of death
- The speaker is accepting of death but isn't accepting at the prospect of being forgotten by her beloved
- The speakers tone is commanding and imperative, however of a gentle nature
- Literary techniques
- Repetition is used to emphasize the readers desire to be remembered after her death, its also used to juxtapose the great boundary between life and death
- Cyclical rhyme scheme to represent the cyclical nature of life and the inevitability of death
- Sonic symmetry is used before and after the volta
- Imagery
- The silent land
- Darkness and corruption
- Hands and physical displays of affection
- Form
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