Christina Rossetti: Poems

Remember

What is the effectiveness of the repetitive use of the word "remember" in the poem?

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Rossetti repeats the word “remember” throughout the entire poem, as if the narrator fears that her beloved will not heed her request. Rossetti also uses repetition to underline the vast boundary between life and death, writing “gone away,” and later, “gone far away.”

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