Remember

Question 1

Describe the form of the poem remember and what it suggests about the meaning

Answer 1

• Italian sonnet (traditional love poem) > rhyme scheme breaks on “for if the darkness and corruption leave”
• the final 2 lines take inspiration from Shakespearean sonnet as it ends in a rhyming couplet

Question 2

Suggest why the rhyme scheme is broken

Answer 2

• form reflects how the meaning of the poem breaks away from the traditional ideas of mourning

Question 3

What part of the poem has religious meaning and what is it

Answer 3

“Gone far away into the silent land”
- Anglo catholic idea of soul sleep after death

Question 4

Which line of the poem gives insight into the tension if the speakers relationship

Answer 4

“You tell me if our future that you planned”

Question 5

What is the final rhyming couplet of the poem that encapsulates the meaning through it’s enjambment

Answer 5

“Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.”