Remember and First Love full analysis

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Choose the two poems that you have most enjoyed in our study of nineteenth century love poetry. Explain how these poems depict love and why you have chosen them. Draw comparisons with at least three further poems from the same collection

Remember by Christina Rossetti:

I chose 'Remember' because of the depth of the feeling of the sonnet. 'Remember' is a sonnet by 'Christina Rossetti'. A sonnet has a typical regular rhyming scheme. This type of sonnet includes fourteen lines. It was written in the Romantic era, the poet talks to her lover and informs him to remember her when she dies by happiness rather than grief and sorrow. It is largely autobiographical, as she wrote it when she was in her death bed. She also tells him that he will be lonely when she leaves him. The poem 'Remember' and 'A woman to her lover' both refer back to the Victorian/Romantic era.

The opening two lines of Rossetti's sonnet "Remember" introduce the idea of separation. 'Remember' starts with a repetition of the main idea that echoes the title name 'Remember'. The poet refers metaphorically to death in the phrase 'Gone away' and 'Gone