Remember Figurative Language

Christina Rossetti is considered a major Victorian poet, as her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Her poem “Remember” is a great mixture of unlike feelings, such as despair and comfort put in one poem to make the reader sense the feeling of loss. This is a poem spoken by a woman who is thinking about her death and needs to ensure that her beloved always remembers her. Or at least, that’s what the message is, until the last lines, when she realizes that remembering will cause too much pain for her loved one, and changes her mind by saying “Better by far you should forget and smile/Than that you should remember and be sad.” Because the poem doesn’t have a lot of figurative language, and it’s not a extended metaphor, the figurative