Remember
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- Created on: 16-05-17 16:52
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- Remember
- Christina Rossetti
- family difficulties
- English Italian family
- faced severe financial problems
- father fell ill
- suffered from depression and breakdowns
- Romantic, devotional and children's books
- Pre-Raphaelite
- Inspired by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- testing and defying conventions
- precise photographic represntation
- transform hard edge realism with symbolism
- inner thoughts and struggles
- female perspective
- stands out against the throng of males
- Victorian
- morbid fascination with death
- Anglo-Catholic movement
- was engaged to a painter but broke it off
- family difficulties
- structure and form
- Petrachan sonnet
- 14 lines
- octave
- anxious and scared that her legacy will be forgotten
- idealistic
- sestet
- darker tone, wants lover to move on
- realistic
- octave
- love, death and passing of time are all encompassed in this poem
- full of pathos and optimism
- simple poem with abstract ideas
- generous, unspirited type of love
- let go
- doesn't want to be remembered at the expense of her lover's happiness
- ambiguous addressee
- personal life doesn't suggest she had a lover
- could be family
- "You tell me of our future that you planned"
- morbidity
- physical touch
- "when you can no more hold me by the hand"
- "You tell me of our future that you planned"
- ambiguous addressee
- generous, unspirited type of love
- iambic pentameter
- heartbeat
- 14 lines
- Petrachan sonnet
- language
- "remember me when i am gone away"
- repetition of remember
- motif
- fears her lover will not uphold her request
- comes to terms with death as a journey
- not final
- spiritual journey
- repetition of remember
- "gone far away into the silent land"
- repetition highlights the boundaries
- emphasises growing tension
- gentle
- lexical field of the afterlife
- metaphor for heaven
- place of no communication with the world
- repetition highlights the boundaries
- "nor i half turn to go yet turning stay"
- indecision
- uncertain about death
- everywhere else sounds pragmatic and accepting of her journey
- "than that you should remember and be sad"
- reconciling the deaths she has experienced
- painful being dead in lover's mind
- having a legacy is universal but attitude is important
- "remember me when i am gone away"
- "yet if you should forget me for a while"
- volta
- generosity and unselfish
- other poems
- she walks in beauty
- ae fond kiss
- the scrutiny
- sonnet 116
- shakespeare vs petrarch
- Christina Rossetti
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