Reaction to Remember Me
I. Summary
The poem I chose to summarize and react to is Remember Me by Christina Rosetti. The type of this poem seems to be lyric poety because it seems that she express her feelings about death and love for her valuable person in this poem. The line, "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad," shows about this feeling.
II.Reaction
1. Imagery
This poem is written in the form such as the letter. I think " silent land" means " heaven". So, after she died, she wants her valuable person to remember herself. Even so, I think she doesn't want to the person to grieve by her death.
2. Rhythm
This poem is short. But the theme is clear. This poem touches reader's heartstrings by using "remember me" many times and it bring regular rhythm.
3. Connotation
The function that a human forgets is good things and bad things. And it is a sad thing, too. In this case, it is a sad thing but the person may feel carefree for forgetting.
4 .General opinion
This is used beautiful words and moving poem. And we are think about death and our valuable person.
