Remember

Question 1

intro

Answer 1

• About: reflect on the mourning and the enduring bond between loved ones
• Purpose: Rossetti hopes to be remembered after death, while offering solace to those left behind
• Tone: quiet plea for remembrance –> selfless acceptance, allowing space for healing and continuation of life beyond loss

Question 2

‘Remember me’

Answer 2

Imperative:
- direct address as the position of the loved one
- desperate TONE
- Repetition of imperative throughout = fear of being forgotten:
- 2nd Refrain = more urgent + pleading

Question 3

‘when I am gone away, / Gone far away’

not too important

Answer 3

• Euphemism - ‘gone away’ - of death - softer term –> very difficult + intimate process
• Repetition
• Intensifier ‘far’ = intensifies the sentiment - stress on the increase in distance

Question 4

‘into the silent land’

important

Answer 4

Metaphor = after life connotations:
1. death is place of peace + tranquillity –> impression to comfort people she left
2. Isolation + absence:
- ‘silent’ = deep unending loneliness

Question 5

’ When you can no more hold me by the hand, / Not I half turn to go yet turning stay’

Answer 5

perfect flowing Iambic Pentameter + Monosyllabic words
- calm, measured composed tone
- reassuring her lover
- will loose physical closeness - wants him to remember her memories –> she will live on
- sense of realism + fear of death in the speaker’s tone –> but holding hands = physical touch as a symbol of trust + unity

Question 6

‘Only remember me ‘

Answer 6

• Inverts the opening form - stops regular rhythm - emphasises ‘only’ = desperation
  Emotive intensifier - ‘Only’
• emphasises anxiousness
• each ‘remember me’ becomes or urgent

Question 7

’ you understand / It will be late to counsel then or pray’

Answer 7

Tonal shift
- cannot comfort / advise, cannot pray, the only think left in their control–> increase sense of hopelessness

Question 8

Yet

Answer 8

Volta = contemplative tone
- change in thought / logic

Question 9

‘And afterwards remember, do not grieve’

Answer 9

compassionate tone - doesn’t want lover to suffer
- Imperative - ‘do not grieve’:
- gentler + forgiveness in tone

Question 10

’ For if the darkness and corruption leave’

Answer 10

‘corruption’ - become graphic imagery = physical rotting of her body
- ‘darkness’ = grief

Question 11

‘A vestige of thoughts that I once had / Better by far you should forgot and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad’

Answer 11

• once her physical presence has left, she would rather he forget her memories and essence + spirit remaining
• *‘Better by far’ = Speaker prioritises her lover’s happiness + wellbeing over her own desires
• Antithesis: ‘forget’ vs ‘remember’ + ‘smile’ vs. sad’:
  
  • the direct opposite for her own desires (to be remembered) –> shows true act of unwavering love

Question 12

what are the last 2 lines called

Answer 12

Dichotomy - choice between two things
- shows constant consideration even after death

Question 13

what structure is this poem

Answer 13

Petrarchan sonnet:
Octave : fear of being forgotten
- introduces the speakers lead
- tone in somewhat melancholic as it focuses the inevitability of separation ,
Volta ‘Yet’:
- turning point, now a more selfless acceptance of forgetting if it brings peace.
Sestet : contemplative / sacrifice
- prioritises her loved one’s emotional well-being over remembrance
- rhyme scheme more fluid

Question 14

what is the effect of the Iambic Pentameter

Answer 14

Is the only control they possess over death
- Contrasts to ‘You tell me of our future that you planned’

Question 15

Comparison

Answer 15

• Piano
• War Photographer