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Life Remember Fear Christina Rossetti Explore X4 I

Front Christina Rossetti - Remember
Explore: x4
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
Back
•First person direct address
•Repetition of 'remember' echoes the speaker's fear that her beloved won't heed her request
•Reoccurring use of 'gone away' highlights this boundary between life and death + used in euphemistic tone - not trying strike genuine fear in the intended reader
•Image 'silent land' equated with loneliness of life without the lover OR could be symbolic of/ after life and Heaven suggesting that she is leaving the world to be with her true love, God. 

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