“Remember”

Question 1

THEMES

Answer 1

-Death
-Afterlife
-Love
-Memory

Question 2

FORM/STRUCTURE

Answer 2

Petrarchan Sonnet-love poem

-strict rhyme scheme
-ABBA octave
disruption
sestet with CDDECE

Question 3

CONTEXT

Answer 3

-strict rules and interpretations of grief
-social conventions for what colours/ fabrics wear and time depending on closeness
-death= common, high infant mortality rates

superstitious on death/grieving

Question 4

ANALYSIS OF
“remember me”

Answer 4

-battological repetition
-imperative

• Ploce verb- repeted’- loses meaning/becomes useless for reader
  -as dicussion around reader’s happiness

Question 5

ANALYSIS OF:
“silent land”
“when you can no more hold me by the hand”

Answer 5

-silence and lack of communication
-consonance of the soft ‘h’ sounds
-Rossetti’s belief in soul sleep/sleeping after death
-reflects intimate, personal nature of the poem

However, perspective of the dying rather than the left behind

Question 6

I am gone away, gone far away”
ANALYSIS

Answer 6

-Diacopic phrases
- distance between the lover and speaker
-battological frustration

Question 7

ANALYSIS OF “Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay”

Answer 7

-Echoes the Greek myth
-Orpheus rescue wife from the underworld
-but turned when leaving to see her
-breaking spell and dooming her to death