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1
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What literary movement did Christina Rossetti belong to?

A

Victorian poet with strong Romantic influences

2
Q

What artistic movement also influenced her poetry?

A

Pre-Raphaelite movement

3
Q

What is the pre-raphaelite movement?

A

A rejection of Mechanistic art, returning to classical imagery with elegent composition

4
Q

What form is Remember written in?

A

Petrarchan Sonnet

5
Q

What are the features of a Petrarchan Sonnet?

A

14 lines
An octave
A sestet
(Usually containing a Volta “change”)

6
Q

How does Rossetti present Love as rememberance?

A

Cyclic rhyme scheme (ABBA)

Lack of closing rhyming couplet

7
Q

Why did Rossetti become so devotely religious?

A

Experienced a lot of personal loss, nearly dying of illness herself and having a nervous breakdown in her late teens

8
Q

Victorian attitudes to death

A

Ritualisation of death, morbid fascination,

preservation of memories extremely important because death was such a strong presence in society

9
Q

What was Rossetti’s beliefs about art

A

Art as an expression of spirituality

10
Q

How does Rossetti present love as selflessness?

A

Volta + sestet

Periphrasis (Circulatory, indirect speech-eg absense of future rather than death)

11
Q

Quotes that show anxiety of death/ being forgotten

x3

A

REPETITION
“Remember me when I am gone away”
“Half turn to go, yet turning stay”
“Only remember me”

12
Q

Quotes of death as seperation/ the end of love (x3)

A

“Gone far away into the silent land”
“No more hold me by the hand”
“Better by far you should forget and smile”

13
Q

Quote for the volta

A

“Yet if you should forget me for a while”

14
Q

Quotes for the corruption of death (x1)

A

“For if the darkness and corruption leave a vestige of the thoughts I once had”

15
Q

Quotes for love as selflessness (x2)

A

“Do not grieve”

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad”

16
Q

What is the plot of Remember?

A

The speaker is imploring their loved ones to remember them before realising that she would rather that they move on and be happy than remember and be miserable

17
Q

What is the significance of Remember being written as a Petrarchan Sonnet?

A

Establishes the key theme of the poem, that true love- whether romantic or familial- is in the letting go. Establishes the poem as a love poem. Translating the speakers final selflessness into an act of love