Remember - Christina Rossetti

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A-Level English literature (Poetry) Mapa Mental sobre Remember - Christina Rossetti, criado por Aniqa Khatri em 10-05-2016.
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Remember - Christina Rossetti
  1. Form and structure
    1. 10 beats per line- Iambic Pentameter
      1. The Rhyme scheme of the octave consists of two enclosed quatrains: ABBA, ABBA
        1. The enclosure of the Rhyme scheme reflects the retention of a persons 'thoughts' that the speaker describes as being in the memory of the beloved
        2. Line 9 is the Volta of the sonnet. The tone of the speaker changes
          1. Turns from giving the instruction of remembering her, to accepting that she may be forgotten
          2. Petrarchan sonnet
            1. The Sestet has the Rhyme scheme CDDECE
              1. The change in the Rhyme scheme and the pattern , it emphasises the shift in the speakers thoughts
            2. Types of loves explored
              1. Selfish?
                1. Lost love
                  1. Eternal love
                  2. References
                    1. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Frye
                    2. Themes
                      1. death
                        1. Love/Love after death
                          1. Memory and past
                            1. Remembrance
                            2. Language Analysis, Techniques and imagery
                              1. 'Remember me when I am gone away/Gone far away into the silent land'
                                1. Repetition of 'gone' to underline the vast boundary between life and death
                                  1. 'silent land'- refers to heaven-positive outlook of death/acceptance of death
                                    1. Acceptance of death was very common in pre-Raphaelite philosophy- believed that the material trouble didn't compare to the struggle of the mind
                                    2. 'silent'- death imagery- emphasises the narrators impending loneliness after death
                                      1. Tone is mournful at the start of the poem
                                      2. 'Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay'
                                        1. use of oxymoron-'Turning stay'- emphasises turbulent emotion
                                          1. 'staying' seen as a reference to staying in memory even after death
                                            1. remembers in previous meetings there was a reluctance to leave but now it is a neccessity that they have to deal with
                                            2. 'Remember me when no more day by day'
                                              1. 'Remember'- runs throughout the the sonnet like a refrain
                                                1. The refrain breaks up the sequence od the sonnet
                                              2. 'Only remember me; you understand/It will be late to counsel then or pray'
                                                1. she wants him to be happy so tells him to remember her but not very oer her or pray for her since that will not bring her back
                                                  1. She would rather he forget her and be happy than remember her and be upset
                                                2. 'When you can no more hold my hand by the hand'
                                                  1. The image of holding hands suggests a kind of possession. Her lover will no longer have possession over her in the same way he was perhaps used to
                                                3. Typicality of Love Poetry
                                                  1. It is a petrarchan sonnet which was not uncommon for love poetry
                                                    1. There is lot od angst and fear which is common for love poems

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