![]() The poem also suggests us that no one can escape from the torturous grip of the death. Therefore, she gives her dearest one the freedom to remember of forgets as he/she wishes. It is also equally meaningless to insist someone to remember him/her after his/her death. Therefore, the better way to mourn someone’s death is by expressing the love as immortal as the green grass through the drops of tears as pure as the dew drops. When she is dead, she won’t be able to hear any songs, see any roses, or feel the Cypress shade. She is against any short of mourning that sings like of showing off. The poet may be trying to be realistic regarding her death. The first stanza deals with the world of living and the second with the poets experience in the grave. The entire poem consists of two stanzas and of two varying significance. She will pass the rest of her time dreaming through the never-ending evening when the sun neither rises nor sets. ![]() The sweet and sad song of the nightingale will not touch her. However, sadly one may sing, but she will not hear it. She will not see the shadows of the cypress planted by her dearest one. If he likes he will remember and if he does not like he will forget.Īfter her death she will be buried in the grave, and she will go into the world of the dead. Afterwards she does not force him to remember. As the showers and dewdrops make the grass green for ever, so the tears will make their love eternal. She rather thinks that if people are really sorry at the death of their loving person they should be humble like grass and only few drops of tears will be sufficient. But the poet thinks that they are just showing off. Normally, we find that after the death people express their grief by singing sad songs and by planting roses and cypress tree. ![]() She likes her tomb with green grass associated with showers and dewdrops. She does not want others to plant roses or shady cypress tree at her tomb. The poet addresses her dearest one and asks him not to sing sad sons for her when she is dead. She moved into her imagination and tried to talk with her lover in dreams and then write her poetry in a sad tone.The first stanza of the poem describes the world of the living people. So, she always mourns in her poetry for love. She didn’t get her love and did not expect true love from him. The theme of Love and Mourning:Ĭhristina Rossetti’s maximum poetries are on love and mourning. She is talking with her lover in her dreams because, in reality, her lover does not put any attention to her. Christina escapes into her imagination and started dreaming of her death. The whole poem is narrated on the theme of escapism. She didn’t want any favor or love from her lover. She is saying to her lover that after her death, my dearest does not sing sorrowful songs for her, nor plant bed of roses and Cypress trees on her grave. In this poem, the poetess is dreaming of her death. THEMES OF WHEN I AM DEAD, MY DEAREST: The theme of Death: She is further saying that she will remember that dream or she will forget. But her dream didn’t come true and she is still alive and all her dreams fade into the darkness. She was dreaming in the half-light and imagining her death in her thoughts. She couldn’t hear the song of the nightingale and it is hurting her so much. Further, she is adding that if you remember me then remember me and if you forget me then forget me.įurther, she is describing her feeling inside the grave that she couldn’t feel the gloominess of the outer world, nor she can feel the rain. Let the green grass grow by itself on my grave and let wet with rain and dew. Don’t put shadow-giving Cypress trees on my headstones. The poetess “ CHRISTINA ROSSETTI” is accosting her lover whom she is calling as ‘My Dearest’ that after my death, don’t sing any sad song for me and don’t plant any red rose on my head.
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