Remember

Question 1

written

Answer 1

1849 she was 19

Question 2

form of this poem

Answer 2

petrarchan sonnet
- one with the octect and volta

Question 3

basic idea

Answer 3

• octet
  -> despearate and adamant to be remembered (not selfless)
  -» repetitive “remember”
• volta
  -> tone shift - more selfless
  -» relinquishes this demand
  -»> “better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad”

Question 4

afterlife

Answer 4

• “silent land”
  -> ambiguous, doubt for what it is like
  -> ominous, peaceful and serene

Question 5

context

Answer 5

• engaged with james collinson
• soul sleep
• 45 mortality
• only 19 but has this morbid fascination of death - death looms voer her
  -> common then less now
  -> multitidue of illnesess - 1844 had her first nervous breakdown and so was homeschooled
• gender roles - “you planned” - unfariness rooted in society
• only a year apart from when i am dead my dearest