Analysis of the Poem “Remember” by Christina Rossetti
Analysis of the poem “Remember” by Christina Rossetti
This poem is composed by fourteen lines that are divided in two quatrains with four lines, and one sestet follow the structure of the Italian sonnets. The structure of the poem is iambic pentameter because it has five feets, the rhyme is abba, abba, cdde, ce.
In the first stanza, Rossetti conveys an infinite need to stay alive in the memory of her love even when natural events in the lives of people, such as death and separation may come to end their emotional connection. Describes these moments in a melancholy tone, sad, reflecting the pain of the soul when someone is forgotten by the life`s love.
In the second stanza, she appeals to the feelings of her beloved recreating a future situation where her absence is a reality, when everything built, dreamed, planned is nothing more than a vain remembrance of a life together. The lament of her beloved and probably things that were left unsaid cannot be heard by she maintains a tone full of despair and in her words keeps constant beg with the only purpose of staying alive in someone's life. Her constant fear of feel forgotten, to eternity alone is very distressing and this is her tool to have in deep way the heart of her beloved.
She keeps hope alive even in the latter part of the poem radically changes her position. In the sestet, the prayers are transformed a compassionate feeling as if her beloved after suffering so much at the prospect of forget came to understand that although the distance imposed they will always be together. Put aside her personal needs and she thinks about what is best decision for her loved. Her changes of mind are very surprising, therefore, that it is she who takes not worth keeping her memories tied to someone who will be alive and should have the joy of being happy in a world where she does not may be.
In the sestet the tone has a big change, the description of the life and death no longer plaintive screams and understanding,
This poem is composed by fourteen lines that are divided in two quatrains with four lines, and one sestet follow the structure of the Italian sonnets. The structure of the poem is iambic pentameter because it has five feets, the rhyme is abba, abba, cdde, ce.
In the first stanza, Rossetti conveys an infinite need to stay alive in the memory of her love even when natural events in the lives of people, such as death and separation may come to end their emotional connection. Describes these moments in a melancholy tone, sad, reflecting the pain of the soul when someone is forgotten by the life`s love.
In the second stanza, she appeals to the feelings of her beloved recreating a future situation where her absence is a reality, when everything built, dreamed, planned is nothing more than a vain remembrance of a life together. The lament of her beloved and probably things that were left unsaid cannot be heard by she maintains a tone full of despair and in her words keeps constant beg with the only purpose of staying alive in someone's life. Her constant fear of feel forgotten, to eternity alone is very distressing and this is her tool to have in deep way the heart of her beloved.
She keeps hope alive even in the latter part of the poem radically changes her position. In the sestet, the prayers are transformed a compassionate feeling as if her beloved after suffering so much at the prospect of forget came to understand that although the distance imposed they will always be together. Put aside her personal needs and she thinks about what is best decision for her loved. Her changes of mind are very surprising, therefore, that it is she who takes not worth keeping her memories tied to someone who will be alive and should have the joy of being happy in a world where she does not may be.
In the sestet the tone has a big change, the description of the life and death no longer plaintive screams and understanding,