Poetry - Christina Rossetti Flashcards
When I am dead my dearest
“When I am dead my dearest, song no sad songs for me”
“Be the green grass above me”
“I shall not see
I shall not feel
I shall not hear” anaphora
Remember
Sonnet
“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land”
Saesura
Punctuation within line
Sibilance
S
Plosives
D, p, b
Half rhyme
Consonants rhymes, vowels don’t
The antique
“Double blank in a woman’s lot”
Echo
“Come to
Come in
Come with”
“Come in the speaking silence of the night”
“Sunlight in a stream”
“Slow door”
“Pulse for pulse, breath for breath”
Shut out
“The door was shut”
“He left no loophole great or small through which my straining eyes might look”
In the round tower and Jhansi
“”Close her cheek to his” physical intimacy seen in remember
Maude Clare
“To bless the hearth, to bless the board, to bless the marriage bed”
“Faded leaves”
“Budding bough”
Up hill
“ you cannot miss that inn” inn which Jesus was born
“Beds for all who come” heaven
Good Friday
“Am I a stone and not a sheep”
Twice
“O my god, o my god” internal repetition as is evident in remember
Winter my secret
“Nipping and clipping” similar language to goblin market “grunting and snarling”
