REMEMBER Flashcards
‘remember me’
Imperative verb
‘gone away, gone far away’
Distance between them emphasised by repetition and added intensifier
‘only remember me’
Imperative
Not conditional but softened plea/begging
‘yet if you should forget me’
Volta
Changes idea of the poem
Conditional choice
‘nor i half turn to go yet turning to stay’
Metaphor
She is dying
Cannot turn back
Reluctant
‘silent land’
Death is loneliness
Silence is shocking and unpleasant
Euphemism
‘hold me by the hand’
Symbol of first love
Physical representation of love
‘forget… remember’
Juxtaposition
‘to counsel’
Advice/guidance
Cannot help anymore when she is dead
‘only remember me;’
Hard-breaking caesure
Separating and comparing choices physically on the page
‘darkness and corruption’
Negative representation of death (silent land)
What is the form?
Sonnet
What is the poem broken into?
Octave and sestet
What is the octave about?
Wants the person to remember her
What is the sestet about?
They shouldn’t be upset if they forget but smile instead
Themes?
Memory
Grief
Guilt
Death
Remembrance
What happens at the volta?
Shows she realises she might not want him to waste his life grieving her and should live instead
What is the tone?
Sentimental
Wants to be remembered but doesn’t want t cause pain
summary of remember
- 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
context and structure of remember
- 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
themes in remember
- love
- death
- memory
language in remember - 4
- personal pronouns - private farwell, personal, intimate
- alliteration - ‘hold me by the hands’ - desperation /// plosive alliteration ‘better by’ intense want to be remebered
- euphamism - ‘silent land’ for death - not distress the speakers lover - death is a journey and very dif to life.
- repetition - remember - command, intense, strong, powerful
