Remember
Christina Rossetti
Remember
The opening two lines of Rossetti's sonnet "Remember" introduces the idea of separation, whether the speaker's sudden departure is because she has chosen to leave her lover or because she is dying, either one is not immediately clear. As the poem unfolds, the reader understands that death will divide the couple, and the initial hint of that is the phrase "silent land" to describe the place the speaker is going. The words seem to define a cemetery or individual grave more than heaven, and "silent," in particular, implies a dormant state of existence and a place that are neither joyous nor painful, pleasant nor sad. The opening lines also portray the speaker's desire to be remembered and she request her lover to do just that. This request will become more significant at the end of the poem when the dying woman appears to do an about-face with what she asks of him.
The themes are eluded throughout the poem. Lines one through three deal with the......
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