Remember Flashcards
1
Q
What is the main context of Remember?
A
Wrote in 1849 with a speaker talking their love for someone and how they wish for them to react when the speaker has passed.
Volta shifts plea to sense of selflessness.
2
Q
What type of poem is Remember and what is its rhyme scheme?
A
Petrarchan love sonnet,
ABBAABBA CDDECE
Octave then sestet
3
Q
What are the themes in Remember?
A
love death grief loss and memory
4
Q
What is Remember’s placement within society and how could it be religiously interrupted?
A
Victorian people were very focussed on death, legacy and emotional impact of loss.
Rossetti’s devout Anglican faith shapes the themes of spiritual acceptance, afterlife and selflessness.
5
Q
What is the meter of ‘Remember’?
A
iambic pentameter
