Remembrance

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Remembrance

Structure

To new resolve to carry on without him

Moves from self-dout over her faithfullness to her dead husband

Eight 4 lined verses

Form

A lyrical, elegy or lament

Theme

Despair

Remembrance and moving on

Getting over the death of a loved one

Love

Separation and loss

Language and imagery

Dramatic use of punctuation - ? ! - to show th strength of the poet's feelings

Oxymorons - 'rapturous pain' 'divinest anguish' - the joy and pain of memory

Personification of despair

Presonification of time as an unstopable wave

Repetition - 'cold' 'severed' 'hopes' 'bliss' - emphasises the effect of death

Second half - softer hymn like - 'bliss' 'rapturous'

First half - hard, harsh words - 'cold' 'sever' 'suffereing'

Tone

Ultimate tone - determined, certainty, courage, stoicism, strength of will and purpose

Then - loving, tender, fond, and passsionate

First - questioning and doubtful

Varies - mirrors poet's emotions

Rhythm and rhyme

Feels like an outpouring of emotions

Hymnal

Slow, sobre and regular