Remember Summary
Christina Rossetti

Remember Summary

When the sonnet "Remember" first appeared in "Goblin Market" and Other Poems in 1862, it was both warmly and sadly received by readers. A mixture of happiness and depression tends to run throughout many of Christina Rossetti's poems, and this one, which begins "Remember me when I am gone away," implies immediately a loving, yet sad, request. How Rossetti resolves the conflict she presents in the poem reflects the way she handled similar dilemmas...

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