Written in 1849 (when she was 19)

• In 1843, her father was sick with TB & Bronchitus,
• High mortality rate in England in the Victorian era

Remember is written during the Romantic era

• Romantic poetry and “memento mori” (”remember you must die”)
• Post-mortem photography accepted
• Acceptance of death in pre-Raphelite Philosophy

Themes:

• Impermenance of life,
• struggle between physical existance and the afterlife
• Death is unescapable
• Seperation of love with death

Tone &Structure:

first 8 lines (octave - commanding tone)

second half (sestet - consoling tone) - poetic transition