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REMEMBER. Sunday, 16 March 2014. BASIC STUFF. What form of poem is this? How do you know? List 4 key elements of this form 14 Lines Octave/sestet division Change of POV at the VOLTA About Love. The poem. Remember Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land;

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REMEMBER

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  1. REMEMBER Sunday, 16 March 2014

  2. BASIC STUFF • What form of poem is this? • How do you know? • List 4 key elements of this form • 14 Lines • Octave/sestet division • Change of POV at the VOLTA • About Love

  3. The poem Remember Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand 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 the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. Structure: 14 lines 2 quatrains to the Octave Then the sestet–follow the punctuation

  4. Quatrain 1 The focus of the poem is the opening word. We will explore the idea of memory. Repeated but strengthened suggesting the finality of death 1st person focus Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. euphemism 2nd character introduced

  5. Reinforces the subject under discussion Quatrain 2 Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. 2nd character seems to be controlling – not nec bad thing Consider : why are these words set in opposition? What is suggested? Not asking much – no need to memorialise

  6. After the VOLTA Highlights a new direction of thought 1st part of conditional sentence Yetif you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. Imperative: strength Conditional is completed. The poem has totally changed direction.

  7. IDEAS? • LOVE AND LOSS • Attitudes to love • Compare with sonnet 116. Here love should include allowing a partner to forget… a kindness. Shakespeare will suggest that love lasts until “the edge of doom”. • Nature of the relationship – the 2nd character is controlling. Does the first voice complain or simply comment? • Find links with other poems in the anthology…

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