When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of thoughts that I once had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

I chose to write my poetry criticism on the sonnet "Remember" by Christina Rossetti. It was written in 1849 when Rossetti was just 19 years old. She is considered to be one of the foremost women poets of the 19th century Victorian period. In this sonnet the themes of love, death, and reaction to death are introduced.

Christina Rossetti was born in London in 1830. She was the product of a wealthy family and was raised a pious Calvinist. She wrote about many themes ranging from love to the seasons of

The theme and simple language work together with the rhyme scheme, abbaabbacddece, work together to make the sonnet pleasant-sounding. I think the beauty of this sonnet is that it is both simple, in language and word choice, and complex, in idea, at the same time without being too overwhelming to the reader. I think the reader finds this sonnet easily applicable to his or her own lives, making it a universally likable reading.

the year. She used little visual detail in her poetry. She let her ideas speak for themselves. She is sometimes incorrectly associated with the women's suffrage movement but she was happy with her place in life and furthermore said that Christianity and womens' rights were at odds. She spent the last 15 years of her life in seclusion and died in 1894 a well-known poet.

I think that Rossetti wrote this sonnet to teach all who read it that death is inevitable, but it should not consume the lives of those who are left living. She wrote this sonnet to her lover that he should not be upset if, after she died, he forgot about her because she would rather know that he is happy than that he is,

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)