Remember By Christina Rossetti
Christina Rosetti was born in London in 1830. She was one of four children, her parents were Italian. Her father, Gabriele Rosetti was a poet. One of her brothers, Dante Gabriele Rosetti was a poet and a painter. She is best represented in poetry by her ballads and mythical religious lyrics. (www.poets.com)
In the 1880s, She contracted Grave's disease, a thyroid disorder and in 1891, Rosetti developed cancer, from which she died in London on December 29th, 1894. (www.poets.com)
The poem, as the title of it says, deals with remembrance. In this case the writer is addressing someone, a husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. I feel that this work falls squarely into the category of lyric poetry. Lyric expresses the emotions of the poet as well as their thoughts and feelings. The poet is asking their significant other to remember them when they go away, which I interpret as dying. Through the first eight lines of the poem the writer is firm on the wish that their lover......
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