REMEMBER

Question 1

‘remember me’

Answer 1

Imperative verb

Question 2

‘gone away, gone far away’

Answer 2

Distance between them emphasised by repetition and added intensifier

Question 3

‘only remember me’

Answer 3

Imperative
Not conditional but softened plea/begging

Question 4

‘yet if you should forget me’

Answer 4

Volta
Changes idea of the poem
Conditional choice

Question 5

‘nor i half turn to go yet turning to stay’

Answer 5

Metaphor
She is dying
Cannot turn back
Reluctant

Question 6

‘silent land’

Answer 6

Death is loneliness
Silence is shocking and unpleasant
Euphemism

Question 7

‘hold me by the hand’

Answer 7

Symbol of first love
Physical representation of love

Question 8

‘forget… remember’

Answer 8

Juxtaposition

Question 9

‘to counsel’

Answer 9

Advice/guidance
Cannot help anymore when she is dead

Question 10

‘only remember me;’

Answer 10

Hard-breaking caesure
Separating and comparing choices physically on the page

Question 11

‘darkness and corruption’

Answer 11

Negative representation of death (silent land)

Question 12

What is the form?

Answer 12

Sonnet

Question 13

What is the poem broken into?

Answer 13

Octave and sestet

Question 14

What is the octave about?

Answer 14

Wants the person to remember her

Question 15

What is the sestet about?

Answer 15

They shouldn’t be upset if they forget but smile instead

Question 16

Themes?

Answer 16

Memory
Grief
Guilt
Death
Remembrance

Question 17

What happens at the volta?

Answer 17

Shows she realises she might not want him to waste his life grieving her and should live instead

Question 18

What is the tone?

Answer 18

Sentimental
Wants to be remembered but doesn’t want t cause pain

Question 19

summary of remember

Answer 19

• girl close to death begging her lover not to forget her
• volta in the middle where the rhyme scheme changes and complete shift and she accepts that it will be better for him to forget her and be happy than remember her with sadness

Question 20

context and structure of remember

Answer 20

• petrarchan sonnet (14 line stanza) - rhyming more simple at beginning but more somplex in last bit to show more complex emotions
• iambic pentameter - sounds like a heartbeat - theme of love
• written as a 19 year old girl - Christina Rossetti

Question 21

themes in remember

Answer 21

• love
• death
• memory

Question 22

language in remember - 4

Answer 22

1. personal pronouns - private farwell, personal, intimate
2. alliteration - ‘hold me by the hands’ - desperation /// plosive alliteration ‘better by’ intense want to be remebered
3. euphamism - ‘silent land’ for death - not distress the speakers lover - death is a journey and very dif to life.
4. repetition - remember - command, intense, strong, powerful