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10. Juni 2019 · Memory, as a wise writer once put it, is the thing we forget with. But poetry, of course, is bound up with the idea of remembering, recollecting, reflecting, memorialising … so here are ten of the very best poems about remembering, memories, remembrance, nostalgia, and related themes. 1. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30.
The Poet Remembers: Directed by Jan Nemec. With Joseph Brodsky, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Czeslaw Milosz, Susan Sontag. A documentary focusing on Lithuanian-born poet/essayist/novelist Czeslaw Milosz, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
The following poems offer a unique perspective on memory as they look back at the past from various perspectives, recalling sensations, events, people, places, and things that the speaker feels connected to, creating a web of time that lasts far beyond the poet.
25. Dez. 2019 · 1914 : poetry remembers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Publication date. 2013. Topics. World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry, World War (1914-1918), War poetry, English, Literature. Publisher. London : Faber and Faber. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English.
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‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti addresses a couple’s future and the speaker’s desire to be remembered, but not if it causes her lover sadness. In ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti, the poetic persona encourages the unseen reader to remember her after her death, and it is only near the end of the poem that the narrator changes her mind (one can assu...
‘Remember’ is an amazing poem with simple language and a great theme. Both these features work in tandem with the rhyme scheme, thus making it sound pleasant. This sonnet’s beauty lies not only in its choice of languages but also in retaining or maintaining a somewhat complex idea. However, ‘Remember’ is a fourteen-line sonnet that is structured wi...
In ‘Remember,’ Christina Rossetti makes use of several literary devices. These include but are not limited to enjambment, repetition, anaphora, and examples of metaphors. The latter is seen through the description of death as the “silent land.” This is a euphemism that is meant to make the prospective loss less frightening and depressing. Besides, ...
In ‘Remember,’Christina Rossetti taps into themes of life, memory, forgetting, loss or death, and love. The latter is seen most clearly through the last lines of the poem. The speaker’s love for her listener is stronger than her desire that they remember her after she’s gone. She’d rather they be happy than maintain her memory, a marker of true lov...
The speaker of ‘Remember’ is scared, not of death, but of her lover forgetting her. It is to her the most brutal thing that could happen to her – her tonewavers between conciliatory and contemplative, soft and weak, as she tries to implore her beloved to never forget her even when she has ‘gone far away into the silent land. In the first few lines,...
Lines 1–2
The very first quatrain of ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti brings the subjectof the speaker’s death and the painful separation of the two lovers. The poem has been written like a monologue directly addressed to the lover. In the sonnet, the poet shows her urging her lover to remember her when she is “gone away,/ Gone far away into the silent land;” However, in the first two lines of this sonnet, Christina Rossetti deals with the element of death and tries to make her lover understand that he...
Lines 3–4
In these two lines of ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti, the speaker says why her lover should remember her. As at the time of leaving this earthly burden, it will be impossible for him to hold her by the hand. Nor can she come back from halfway and turn to bid adieu to her love. The argument is solid yet emotional. There is a sense of realism as well as the fear of death in the speaker’s tone. Whatsoever, the poet, by referring to holding hands, present physical touch as a symbolof trust. Mor...
Lines 5–6
The above two lines of ‘Remember’suggest that Rossetti and her lover should have got married so that they could show their love for each other. In the above lines, the poet expects a lot from her lover and even suggests to him that he must not grieve over her death if he cannot remember her. She implores him to remember the days when they were together, cherishing each moment of their mutual love as she won’t be there in the upcoming days after her death when her lover can tell her about thei...
‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti is a poem written during the Romantic era. Although Keats, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, and Shelley, dominate the Romantic era, there was a smaller group of poets who, influenced by the Romantics, demanded just as much attention. They were the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who milled around Romantic fame and p...
Born in London in 1830, the poet of ‘Remember,’ Christina Rossetti belonged to a wealthy family and was brought up as a pious Anglican. She was the youngest child of a very gifted, loving family, and her early childhood was very happy and devoid of hardship. She had three brothers and sisters and received a very good education – practically unheard...
Lovers of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember’ should also seek out poems that deal with a similar subject matter. One of these is ‘How do I love Thee,’ also known as ‘Sonnet 43’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her ‘Sonnet 14’ is another related poem that also deals with relationships, love, and loss. Other poems of interest might be ‘I Do Not Love You’ ...
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1990. 1h. Biography/Documentary. Cast. Joseph Brodsky (Self) Zbigniew Brzezinski (Self) Czeslaw Milosz (Self) Susan Sontag (Self) Director. Jan Nemec. Synopsis. A documentary focusing on...
By William Shakespeare. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought. I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
