Remember..?

Question

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 planned:
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.


Christina Rossetti

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Answer 1

I was reading this and thinking wow this is just beautiful. Effortless imabic pentameter and an intricate non-forced rhyme scheme. Then I noticed it was Rossetti...thank you for sharing, and thank you for crediting or I would have embarressed myslelf by asking why you hadn't published.

Answer 2

Not only a beautiful poem, but a classic when it comes to proper form and poetic device. If you read it slowly and with normal phrasing, you'll notice how the rhymes almost don't seem like they're rhyming and the enjambment works so well you could cry. If you look at it word for word, line by line, there is nothing that you'll find out of the ordinary, no outragous metaphors or obscure reference to gods, just simple speech delivered in an honest voice.
If you want to write good poetry, use this as an example of how it's done.

Simply beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Answer 3

A lovely, gentle and most thoughtful poem. Rossetti was an early feminist; a voice crying in the Victorian wilderness. I have always liked her poem "The Goblin's Market." Alas, I fear that few relationships end on such a tender note!

Answer 4

Well Black Fox, ya got me! I'm sitting here reading this thinking, gee, where have I seen this before? I can't believe somebody would try to claim credit for this. I just know I've seen it before! And then I saw Rossetti's name at the end. Ya really had me goin' there for a minute! Yes, I love that poem.

Answer 5

I love Rossetti. I feel she lives in all of us. Thank you for that!

Answer 6

How do I you will want to you will want to bear in techniques? by utilising no longer forgetting, I dunno, what precisely do you propose? I bear in techniques stuff regularly by utilising going over it persistently till i will recite it completely

Answer 7

What's the question?

Answer 8

i like it