Poetry

Remember by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti’s poem, ‘Remember’ foretells the aftermath of her death on her lover, where the poem starts with the imperative verb and the repetition of the title ‘Remember’ to emphasise the human’s posthumous desire to exist after death through memories. Rossetti explores self-effacing love, capturing gestures of love with the conjunction of disruption in this …

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The Hunchback in the Park | Dylan Thomas

To read the poem, click here. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ symbolises human isolation, specifically human isolation contrived through the ostracising and denouncement of a hunchback, for reasons relating to both his physical deformity and social destitution. Thomas is keen on producing poetry that looks back to his childhood, and the ‘Hunchback’ is another such …

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