REMEMEBER (final) Flashcards
(11 cards)
rememeber me when i am gone away
IMPREATIVE OF DESPERATION
AWAY- finality, anticipation of death and transcience of life but permenance of memory
gone far away into the silent land
Anticipates entering the silent land thats far away from life and earth - echos classical concept of hades
could be disconnected or forgotten
when you can no more hold me by the hand
IMAGE OF HOLDING HAD EMPLOYED BY DANTE TO SHOW MANIFESTATIONS OF LOVE , IMAGE SUGGESTIVE OF POSSESSION/ DESIRE TO CLING ONTO PHYSICAL INTIMACY
CAN NO LONGER BE IN ‘POSSESSION’ OF HER LOVER
AWAY AND STAY RHYME
anway and stay rhyme even though they are opposites, conflict in narrator of enetering heaven and leaving love
nor i half to go yet turning to stayemember me when no more day by day
repetition of remember me- shos desperation
you tell me of pur future you p[lanned
death is the only garuntee. reminder of the importance of impulsivity
what happens at the volta
A CHANGE IN FEELINGS SHOWING VOLTA- COMPLEXITY OF GRIEF AND LOVE
DARKNESS AND CORRUPTION
narrator allows them to let go (selflessness of love that she has for her lover
euphamism for death- grief leaves trace of the speakers presence
corruption alludes to the physical to the physical decay of death- used in the bible to refer to the physical decay of death and moral decline
THAN YOU SHLOULD REMEMBER ME AND BE SAD
ALTERNATE RHYME SCHEME
SHOWS CONFLICT IN HER DESIRES AND COMMANDS