Remembrance by Emily Bronte is an elegy and contains a lot of negative imagery.

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Remembrance by Emily Bronte is an elegy and contains a lot of negative imagery. The poem has a string link with nature and has lots of information about nature this is probably due to Emily’s background as a child where she was fascinated by nature and enjoyed her own company rather than that of others and it was here when she was alone she learned to appreciate nature. Examples of Emily’s knowledge of nature can be seen strongly in the second verse in particular as she makes lots of references such as ‘Over the mountains’, ‘that northern shore’ and ‘where heath and fern leaves cover’. There are many other examples in the poem but many I talk about later on in the essay.

The poem is about a person losing a loved one and her feeling towards the loved one now the persons gone. The losing of a loved one is a common theme in Emily’s poems although usually it is the mother as this creates a motherless character which relates to Emily herself as she lost her mother when she was only three years old. The poem informs the reader how she cant love anyone how she loved the lost one I believe the loved one she talks about in the poem is her mother and the poem is about her as Patrick Bronte had lovers after the death of Emily’s mother and I believe that the poem is about Emily’s feeling towards these women that none of these people can replace her mother.

Another reason why I believe that the poem is about Emily is that I feel that it shows her enjoyment of being isolated in her own world (Gondal), words such as ‘dreams’ related to Gondal as it was in her dreams when she visited Gondal. Another phrase that could represent Gondal could be ‘No later light has lightened up my heaven’. Her heaven, a perfect world could be a reference to Gondal.

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Emily opens Remembrance with lots of negative images. ‘Cold in the Earth’ is an image of a cold dead body buried in the ground. This body is the loved one talked about in the poem. Deep snow piled above thee. Snow is an image of winter which personifies death a links in with the cold in the earth opening. The world piled sounds unnatural as if someone has piled the snow and it hasn’t landed there naturally. The wording of thee at the end of the lines tells the reader that it is a person in the earth; it makes ...

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