Remember
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- Created on: 17-05-18 20:26
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- Remember - Christina Rosetti
- suffered a nervous break down and had to leave school
- rejected numerous men for religious reasons
- ABBA ABBA CDE CDE rhyme scheme
- Petrarchan sonnet flipped on its head
- octave - problem (remembrance)
- Sestet (solution)
- Iambic pentametre
- One of first female poets claiming the sonnet
- First 8 lines - telling her lover to remember her because she'll soon be dead
- by the end of the poem however she changed her mind - its probs best he forgets her as it would be too painful to remember her
- narrator - presumably rosetti addresses her loved one directly
- the word remember is repeated throughout the poem as if the narrator fears he will not heed her request
- she is now at peace
- she has renounced her desire for earthly pleasures - such as the physical presence of her beloved
- she is accepting of death content to only exist in her lovers memory
- she has renounced her desire for earthly pleasures - such as the physical presence of her beloved
- struggle between physical existence and the after life
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