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Question 1

Main speaker

Answer 1

Christina Rossetti asking her lover to remember her after death

Question 2

Main themes

Answer 2

Love, death, loss, separation, mourning, remembrance.

Question 3

Imagery

Answer 3

Rather than us imagining death the poet has the reader imagine them leaving to go to a far away land.
The poet uses romantic imagery to allow us to imagine them together

Question 4

Main language features

Answer 4

Repetition, romantic imagery

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

The tone is one of loss, love and separation. The mood is mournful and somber. First person

Question 6

Structure

Answer 6

14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Has a steady rhyme scheme

Question 7

Context

Answer 7

Christina Rossetti - 1830-1894
Born into a family of poets and artists.
Devout Anglican - believed that suffering is from God to help us to grace.
Her faith led to the failure of two of her relationships due to religious differences
Published ballads, sonnets and religious poems; many of which dealt with the theme of frustrated love, loss and death.
Plagued with ill-health throughout her life, eventually died of cancer.
Poem was written when Rossetti was 19 and engaged to a young man called James Collinson
Belonged to a well known group called the Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in the Victorian era. They believed art should be as similar to the real world as possible.