Rossetti

Question 1

When I am dead my dearest: 3 key quotes

Answer 1

‘sing no sad songs for me’
‘I shall not see the shadows’
‘haply may forget’

Question 2

When I am dead my dearest: 4 key themes

Answer 2

1 - death as a place of refuge
2 - assertion of her right to control her own death and how she is remembered
3 - memory
4 - fragility of earthly love

Question 3

When I am dead my dearest: 4 key pieces of analysis

Answer 3

1 - solemn, formal style
2 - abstemious
3 - Victorian preoccupation with death
4 - an in-between state (life and death)

Question 4

Remember: 3 key quotes

Answer 4

‘remember me’
‘half turn to go yet turning stay’
‘better by far you should forget’

Question 5

Remember: 3 key themes

Answer 5

1 - sacrifice
2 - fear of death and suffering
3 - parting

Question 6

Remember: 3 key pieces of analysis

Answer 6

1 - by continually telling the addressee to forget she encourages remembrance - comes from a place of uncertainty and fear
2 - cannot be perceived as a devotional poem because the message is not hopeful
3 - futility of earthly love