Summary

“Remember” opens with a call to departure: “Remember me when I am gone away” (1). However, rather than this departure referring to just a change in physical location, the second line of “Remember” implies that this "[going] away" is metaphysical in nature and related to mortality. That this “silent land” is the land of death is reinforced through Rossetti’s emphasis on the lack of physicality in her final, silent resting place – there, “you can no more hold me by the hand, / Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay” (3-4). In the fifth line of her poem, Rossetti once again makes the call to “Remember me.” She even underscores when the act of remembrance should occur: “when no more day by day / You tell me of our future that you plann’d” (5-6). Subsequently, she makes another appeal to remembrance – “Only remember me...