Remember Flashcards
(11 cards)
1
Q
Love as something that changes overtime
A
- maturing in love- acceptance
- love not last forever, become trace of memories
2
Q
Love as something that can be preserved through memory
A
- acknowledges person in mourning wont always remember
- remember happy memories than feelings of loss
3
Q
Death as something as inferior to power of love
A
- death not explicitly mentioned- diminishes
- can’t be together but still remember each other- memories
4
Q
Selflessness and sacrifice associated with love
A
- acceptance over him moving on and not grieving
- learning to grieve herself than remember
- sacrifices love from him as allowing him to move on
- sacrifices her/ her love to move on
5
Q
key quotes?
A
- ‘remember me when i am gone away’
- when you can do no more hold me by the hand’
- for if the darkness and corruption leave’
- forget and smile… remember and be sad’
6
Q
remember me when i am gone away
A
- simple straight forward request
- imagery of death
- repetition shows communication at a distance, highlighting their permanent disconnection
- speaker as someone to be mourned
- preparing
- repeated- begging?, feeling of urgency
7
Q
‘when you can go no more hold me by the hand’
A
- soft alliteration- gentle, song like, conjures image of intimacy
- love as source of joy and comfort
8
Q
'’for if the darkness and corruption leave’
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- no resentment if he forgets her
- level of understanding and compassion
- close + intimate relationship
- feelings of transition
9
Q
‘forget and smile… remember and be sad’
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- direct address- intended for a loved one
- ends of accepting note. end of relationship- painful for speaker.
- grants permission for speaker
- certain and assured in their decision- ends like a farewell
10
Q
contextual ideas?
A
- about grief from perspective about person to be mourned
- begs loved one to remember her but not feel guilty if forgets her
11
Q
structural ideas?
A
- petarchan sonnet
- poignant realism (sense of accepting)
- volta creates sense of maturity and forgiveness
- iambic pentameter
