Remember | Rossetti’s Cold Women: Irony and Liminal Fantasy in the Death Lyrics
In the following essay excerpt, Conley compares
and contrasts “Remember” with “After
Death,” a poem Rossetti wrote around the same
time.
In the sonnet “Remember” (1849) the speaker addresses a lover concerning her imminent death, with the repeated imperative to “remember me.” Unlike “Song” (“When I am dead, my dearest”) (1848), in which the speaker withdraws from the beloved into the indifference of death, “Remember” presents a speaker who at least appears to engage with the beloved and offer remembrance as the possibility of continuity between life and death. However, while adopting a different strategy to that of “Song,” in which death renders null and void the terms “remember” and...
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