Christina Rossetti's “Remember” is a poem about grief, told not from the perspective of a mourner but rather the person who's to be mourned. In this sonnet, the speaker begs a loved one to remember her after her death—but also not to feel guilty if he forgets her, so long as sh...
Remember me when I am gone a-way, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.The first quatrain of this well-known Christina Rossetti sonnet contains masculine rhymes like the other example quoted above. The ...
Christina Rossetti's brother was the artist Dante Rossetti. A context for this poem might be that on the 11th of February 1862, Dante’s wife Elizabeth (nee Siddal) died from an overdose of laudanum shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child. 'A Dirge' by Christina Rossetti Wh...
The speaker of Christina Rossetti's "Echo" begs their departed lover to visit them in dreams, where they can see their lover's face again and relive all their past happiness. But while dreaming about this person gives the speaker much-needed relief from the pain of loss, their insistence ...
Readers might also be interested in ‘Memory’ by Christina Rossetti and ‘In Memory of a Happy Day in February’ by Anne Brontë. Get PDFs for this Poem Log in or join Poetry+ to access all PDFs for this poem. Add Rhyme Scheme Add Meter Syllables Get the Poem PDF Get the ...
“The Goblin Market” is Christina Rossetti’s most famous poem. (Rosetti was born just 25 years after Hans Christian Andersen.) Two sisters, Lizzie and Laura: one good, one not so good. Laura gives in to temptation and tastes the fruit sold by goblins at a forest goblin market. As any...
Sydney Romo Pd. 6BrideSong: A Gently Worded Death “Too late for love‚ too late for joy‚ too late‚ too late!” (1). This is the opening line from the poem “BrideSong”‚ by Christina Rossetti. The poem is about a woman (“thebride”)‚ who lived her life waiting for...
of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the...
their lives together. It is not alcohol that makes her dizzy “speed so fast I felt like I was drunk” (30) but the intoxication of the excitement of the moment. It is the thought of the unknown that makes her dizzy with anticipation. As she sees the lights of the city growing ...
is used, it means Incerti libri, i.e., that the fragments in question are of uncertain ascription, following Willis Barnstone. When the original Greek appears herein, it appears above the corresponding translations.Someone, somewhere will remember us, I swear!