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What literary movement did Christina Rossetti belong to?
Victorian poet with strong Romantic influences
What artistic movement also influenced her poetry?
Pre-Raphaelite movement
What is the pre-raphaelite movement?
A rejection of Mechanistic art, returning to classical imagery with elegent composition
What form is Remember written in?
Petrarchan Sonnet
What are the features of a Petrarchan Sonnet?
14 lines
An octave
A sestet
(Usually containing a Volta “change”)
How does Rossetti present Love as rememberance?
Cyclic rhyme scheme (ABBA)
Lack of closing rhyming couplet
Why did Rossetti become so devotely religious?
Experienced a lot of personal loss, nearly dying of illness herself and having a nervous breakdown in her late teens
Victorian attitudes to death
Ritualisation of death, morbid fascination,
preservation of memories extremely important because death was such a strong presence in society
What was Rossetti’s beliefs about art
Art as an expression of spirituality
How does Rossetti present love as selflessness?
Volta + sestet
Periphrasis (Circulatory, indirect speech-eg absense of future rather than death)
Quotes that show anxiety of death/ being forgotten
x3
REPETITION
“Remember me when I am gone away”
“Half turn to go, yet turning stay”
“Only remember me”
Quotes of death as seperation/ the end of love (x3)
“Gone far away into the silent land”
“No more hold me by the hand”
“Better by far you should forget and smile”
Quote for the volta
“Yet if you should forget me for a while”
Quotes for the corruption of death (x1)
“For if the darkness and corruption leave a vestige of the thoughts I once had”
Quotes for love as selflessness (x2)
“Do not grieve”
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad”
