Christina Rosetti’s “Remember” was published  in Goblin Market and other Poems. The central concept of the poem is the abstract phenomenon of remembrance. The poem is addressed to a loved one. It is a universal fact that one is remembered and regarded more when he/she is at a distance. The remembrance of the one lost forever is indeed poignant. The poetess does not mention explicitly that she may enter the realm of death. She euphemistically states that she passes into a ’silent land’ as Emily Dickinson does in her poem “Because I could Not Stop for Death” where she states that the horses’ heads had turned towards eternity. The poetess redefines the stance of death in different ways. She claims:

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay

which implies the person in question is divorced from her with regard to all the major sensory perceptions. When there is no time for resolution or irresolution. She also reiterates that in such a circumstance there will be no second-thoughts or afterthoughts. The above lines also echo the cyclical process of history-of separation and reconciliation. The position of the two lovers reflect the hands of a clock in their position, and gives one the impression that the clock is standing still at the defining moment.…