Join IGCSE Writing Skills: Obituaries and Speeches
A self-paced one-week pre-recorded class for IGCSE/GCSE students
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What we’re studying
Christina Rossetti's "Remember" (1862) is a tender, quietly aching sonnet spoken by someone anticipating their own death, asking a loved one to remember them once they've "gone away" — before the poem turns, in its final lines, to a more selfless wish: that if remembering brings only sorrow, it is better for the loved one to forget and be happy. A staple of the IGCSE English Literature poetry anthology, it rewards close study of sonnet form, tone and Rossetti's gentle handling of love, loss and grief.
Class contents
Poetry Anthology brief review: poems 1–14
Discussion of "Remember" by Christina Rossetti
Brief biography of the author
Differences between Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets
