Please go back to our last blog assignment. Remember? Everyone chose a poem and identified the speaker, explained what was going on, and pointed out something unusual or interesting about the poem. The assignment ended with a question posed by the student who posted. Please now go back and respond to at least two different posts. For this response, you may answer someone's question, comment on his or her explanation, or present your own analysis of the poem. Post your response on that blog post, not this one!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Remember
ReplyDeleteby Christina Rosetti
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 plann'd:
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.
I do not think I understood the question perfectly, however I will try to respond to it. For mebehind this poem there’s not a story, just little facts that have been lost in transit. As we have seen it is certainly written in first person and try to rework a memory that was lost in the wind. The poem is written in first person and it refers to a person that for her may have been more than just a friend so a true love.
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day?
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summersday?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a day:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor loose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
This is an interesting poem that compares a girl to a summerday, in fact the author introduces many metaphores to say how beautiful she is. This is written in first person in fact the author says “shall I compare thee to a summerday”. Finally, i found something unusual, it is the rhyme in fact it has a strange rhyme.