Remember

Question 1

Meaning

Answer 1

The speaker of the poem is instructing her loved one to remember her when she is dead. However by the end of the poem she realises that it would be better for him to forget her and be happy then spend his days being sad.

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

-Petrarchan sonnet
-Volta
-caesura
-refrain
-changing rhyme scheme

Question 3

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 3

-usually written from a man to a woman
-poem is not solely about love, which contrasts its what sonnets were traditionally about

Question 4

Volta

Answer 4

Between the octave, and the sestet, it goes form remember me, to forget me as it’ll be better

Question 5

Caesura

Answer 5

-Connects the two ideas, feels like a resigned sigh
-only means merely, so she merely wants him to remember her and not to pray for her or do other things

Question 6

Refrain

Answer 6

-Remember me
-imperative,
-possibly shows a begging nature, as she has to repeat it

Question 7

Changing rhyme scheme

Answer 7

-in the octave, it suggests togetherness, that it is easy for her to want her husband to remember her and to think of her own wants
-in the sestet it suggests that it is difficult for her to say this, to think of her husbands needs instead of hers

Question 8

Imagery

Answer 8

-imagery of the after life
-image of their love
-image of her nearly dying before
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Question 9

Imagery of the afterlife

Answer 9

-silent land
-allusion as well, but the image created is still not happy, silence forever

Question 10

Image of their love

Answer 10

-hold me by the hand
-suggests they were affectionate to eachother

Question 11

Image of her newly dying before

Answer 11

-nor I half turn out go yet turning stay
-we assume turn to go is her dying, and so turning stay is her then getting better
-suggests that she cannot do this anymore and she will no longer be able to turn and stay
-suggested by the word nor

Question 12

Language

Answer 12

-Diacope
-eupamism
-allusion
-metaphor

Question 13

Diacope

Answer 13

-emphasises the idea that she will not be here

Question 14

Euphemism

Answer 14

-euphemism for the after life, she doesn’t want her husband to be sad about it

Question 15

Allusion

Answer 15

Silent land is an allusion to a group of Christian hymns J. G. Salls-Seewis: Into the Silent Land (1597)
-suggestion of the Christian belief and acceptance of death, as death is the ‘sting’ that Christ conquered