Analysis Of Brontës Presentation Of Pain In Remembrance

Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Presentation of Pain in ‘Remembrance’ Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Remembrance is a fictional elegy to a past lover, who has been dead for fifteen years, and conforms to the Victorian era notion that women must mourn the death of their loved ones for prolonged periods. Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s use of the noun ‘Remembrance’ as the title evokes that the speaker wishes to remember her lover, but wishes to forget the pain of their death. This notion was also explored by Brontà « in her novella Wuthering Heights where the ‘Lintons recollect [and] Earnshaws remember’ , reflected in the turmoil the Earnshaws face, which the Lintons do not. Arguably, this presents the view that Brontà « sees remembering as a source of pain, and highlights her interest in the effects of grief†¦show more content†¦C. Day Lewis finds that the effect of the rhythm in Remembrance is ‘extremely powerful, extremely appropriate’ and that ‘it is the slowest rhythm I know in English poetry, and the most sombreâ€⠄¢ , effectively allowing Bronte to convey the grief of remembering. Brontà « provides her speaker with a voice that strengthens and becomes more logical as the poem continues, which would have been unusual in the Victorian era for women in poetry. A first-person narrative is provided by Brontà «, who allows the speaker’s voice to linger and move with the environment. Brontà « had originally set the poem in Gondal, the poet’s imaginary world where her writings were frequently set, reflecting Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s imaginative mind, with her sister, Charlotte Brontà «, once stating ‘An interpreter ought always to have stood between [Emily] and the world.’ This world contained Princes and Princesses, and the poem was originally written for the poet’s character Princess Rosina to lament her husband, Prince Julius, after he was murdered 15 years prior. Memory is a key theme in Remembrance, where ‘Brontà « sets out†¦ to discover what happens when memory is dug up and brought in contact with the air’ . The speaker directly addresses her love, ‘Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee’ (l.3), which evokes the emotional fading of memories. The notion of no longer