'Remember' by Christina Rossetti

[nihilist]

Hi I desperately need help on this poem by Christina Rossetti. (:
How does she use language and imagery to express her feelings about the subject matter?

PLEASE HELP THANKS.

[mir]

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day.
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

"darkness and corruption" - fear and beleif of unhappiness after death; also "silent land" - view of death as bleak and empty.

"Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay." could also reflect the person "tunring" into death but "staying" in the mind of the person left behind

i'm responding because i love your username. but it would be better if you posted the poem yourself and the views you already have on it.

[mono]

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day.
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Thank you for posting the poem, mir, and I entirely agree with all of your interpretations.
Even from the first line, a reader can sense the dark, melancholy undertones, reflecting a bit on nostalgia, as if giving in to the inevitable aspects of death, but depressingly peacefully - peaceful, I mean by the terms such as referring to death as the "silent land," and leaving "darkness and corruption" behind.
Rosetti admits to herself the soon potential arrival of death, and, just like Emily Dickinson's "Letter To The World," carries the tone of some other land awaiting her, yet desires a remembrance of her existence.
If someone would not remember her, however, Rosetti submits to its potential by the final lines "Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad." - some very powerful words! With such lines, she obviously intends and aims the best at her possible remembrance from others; just as anyone forgets, Rosetti not only realizes the mortality of life, but also the mortality of memory.

[needyourhelp]

Hi, I need help to find out about the background information of 'Remember' by Christina Rosseti and 'Sonnets of the Portuguese XLIII' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Can you please give me some background information for those two poems ASAP?

Thanks :)

[Shalot]

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