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Mind Map by Aniqa Khatri, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aniqa Khatri
almost 8 years ago
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Remember - Christina
Rossetti
- Form and structure
- 10 beats per line-
Iambic Pentameter
- The Rhyme scheme of
the octave consists of
two enclosed quatrains:
ABBA, ABBA
- 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
- 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
- Line 9 is the Volta
of the sonnet. The
tone of the
speaker changes
- Turns from giving the
instruction of
remembering her, to
accepting that she may
be forgotten
- Turns from giving the
instruction of
remembering her, to
accepting that she may
be forgotten
- Petrarchan sonnet
- The Sestet has
the Rhyme
scheme CDDECE
- The change in the Rhyme
scheme and the pattern ,
it emphasises the shift in
the speakers thoughts
- The change in the Rhyme
scheme and the pattern ,
it emphasises the shift in
the speakers thoughts
- 10 beats per line-
Iambic Pentameter
- Types of loves
explored
- Selfish?
- Lost love
- Eternal love
- Selfish?
- References
- Do Not Stand At
My Grave And
Weep - Mary Frye
- Do Not Stand At
My Grave And
Weep - Mary Frye
- Themes
- death
- Love/Love
after death
- Memory
and past
- Remembrance
- death
- Language Analysis, Techniques and imagery
- 'Remember me
when I am
gone
away/Gone far
away into the
silent land'
- Repetition of 'gone'
to underline the vast
boundary between
life and death
- 'silent land'- refers to
heaven-positive outlook
of death/acceptance of
death
- Acceptance of death was
very common in
pre-Raphaelite philosophy-
believed that the material
trouble didn't compare to
the struggle of the mind
- Acceptance of death was
very common in
pre-Raphaelite philosophy-
believed that the material
trouble didn't compare to
the struggle of the mind
- 'silent'- death imagery-
emphasises the
narrators impending
loneliness after death
- Tone is
mournful at
the start of
the poem
- Repetition of 'gone'
to underline the vast
boundary between
life and death
- 'Nor I half
turn to go yet
turning stay'
- use of
oxymoron-'Turning
stay'- emphasises
turbulent emotion
- 'staying' seen
as a reference
to staying in
memory even
after death
- remembers in previous
meetings there was a
reluctance to leave but
now it is a neccessity that
they have to deal with
- use of
oxymoron-'Turning
stay'- emphasises
turbulent emotion
- 'Remember me
when no more
day by day'
- 'Remember'-
runs throughout
the the sonnet
like a refrain
- The refrain breaks
up the sequence od
the sonnet
- The refrain breaks
up the sequence od
the sonnet
- 'Remember'-
runs throughout
the the sonnet
like a refrain
- 'Only remember me;
you understand/It
will be late to
counsel then or pray'
- 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
- She would rather he
forget her and be
happy than
remember her and
be upset
- She would rather he
forget her and be
happy than
remember her and
be upset
- 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
- 'When you can no
more hold my
hand by the hand'
- 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
- 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
- 'Remember me
when I am
gone
away/Gone far
away into the
silent land'
- Typicality of Love Poetry
- It is a petrarchan
sonnet which was
not uncommon
for love poetry
- There is lot
od angst and
fear which is
common for
love poems
- It is a petrarchan
sonnet which was
not uncommon
for love poetry
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