Compare and Contrast Remember and A Birthday by Christina Rossetti Essa

Compare and Contrast Remember and A natal day by Christina RossettiChristina Rossetti was natural in Victorian England and grew up in thepre-Raphaelite era. Coming from a well educated family she drewinfluence for her poems from her surroundings and experiences. In A birthday, she looks at the celebration of finding new love. She isoverjoyed because her love is reciprocated and sine qua nons to make a newbeginning with this man spending the inhabit of her life with him risea family. A Birthday is filled with joy, happiness and anticipation ofwhat life will be like with her new love. Whereas Remember is trulydifferent she must(prenominal) prepare her lifelong lover/husband for her death.The tone of joy is therefore replaced by a much sadder tone reflectingher struggle and unhappiness. twain poems are guardedly structured. A birthday is written in twoverses. The first verse contains three similes and a comparative andthe second uses three imperatives (raise me, compartmentalise it, work it) and inthe final lines of both verses the reason for the joy and making ofthe room are given. Whereas Remember is a petrarchan sonnet. Itconsists of many short phrases and gentle lecture which furtherillustrates the flavor of tiredness. The punctuation and lines mirrorher difficulties to speak throughout the poem.In A Birthday repletion of the phrase my oculus is used, this is toillustrate the feelings in her heart of joy, happiness and excitementthat her love has been reciprocated by the one she loves. It gives the vagary that her heart is the most important thing at this chip and itis affecting the actions of the rest of her body. In contrast inRemember the word remember is repeated to emphasise the idea thatwhen... ...ws at first he will spend every moment mentation and suffer forher but with the gradual progression of m he may forget her fromtime to time and for this he ma feel guilty. She is thinking ahead tothe time when he wont think of her in the natura l flow of time whichis imperceptible to him. The fact he has now accredited she is going to snuff it she can give him instructions and talk about death and the gravein a real way. Such as the idea of darkness in the grave and how thebody will decompose. She asks him to hold her in his heart and recordher in his everlasting memories this compares with the idea ofresponsibility that comes with love which is expound in ABirthday. She finally reassure him that if he does forget her hewont be a traitor to her because she wants him to be apt anddoesnt want her death to be the end of his happiness forever. Compare and Contrast Remember and A Birthday by Christina Rossetti EssaCompare and Contrast Remember and A Birthday by Christina RossettiChristina Rossetti was born in Victorian England and grew up in thepre-Raphaelite era. Coming from a well educated family she drewinfluence for her poems from her surroundings and experiences. In ABirthday, she looks at the celebration of finding new love. She isoverjoyed because her love is reciprocated and wants to make a newbeginning with this man spending the rest of her life with him raisinga family. A Birthday is filled with joy, happiness and anticipation ofwhat life will be like with her new love. Whereas Remember is verydifferent she must prepare her lifelong lover/husband for her death.The tone of joy is therefore replaced by a much sadder tone reflectingher struggle and unhappiness.Both poems are carefully structured. A birthday is written in twoverses. The first verse contains three similes and a comparative andthe second uses three imperatives (raise me, carve it, work it) and inthe final lines of both verses the reason for the joy and making ofthe room are given. Whereas Remember is a petrarchan sonnet. Itconsists of many short phrases and gentle words which furtherillustrates the feeling of tiredness. The punctuation and lines mirrorher difficulties to speak throughout the poem.In A Birthday replet ion of the phrase my heart is used, this is toillustrate the feelings in her heart of joy, happiness and excitementthat her love has been reciprocated by the one she loves. It gives theidea that her heart is the most important thing at this moment and itis affecting the actions of the rest of her body. In contrast inRemember the word remember is repeated to emphasise the idea thatwhen... ...ws at first he will spend every moment thinking and grieving forher but with the gradual progression of time he may forget her fromtime to time and for this he ma feel guilty. She is thinking ahead tothe time when he wont think of her in the natural flow of time whichis imperceptible to him. The fact he has now accepted she is going todie she can give him instructions and talk about death and the gravein a real way. Such as the idea of darkness in the grave and how thebody will decompose. She asks him to hold her in his heart and recordher in his everlasting memories this compares with the idea ofresponsibility that comes with love which is described in ABirthday. She finally reassure him that if he does forget her hewont be a traitor to her because she wants him to be happy anddoesnt want her death to be the end of his happiness forever.