Remember

What happens?

• Acceptance and understand grief

• Honesty about suffering

• Juxtaposition of forget and remembrance

Form

• Iambic pentameter - heartbeat

• 14 lines

• Volta - After line 8

• Split into octave with controlling tone and sestet with uncertainty

• Volta changes poem from forgetting to remembering

“Yet if you should forget me for a while”

Longing and vulnerability. Fear of being forgotten and desire to be cherished

“Silent land”

Better place than earth (“darkness and corruption”) → life is full of struggle/difficulty

“Future that you plann’d”

Women didn’t decide their own futures/destiny, men did