A Comparison of Two Pre 1914 Poems - Remember, Christina Rossetti, and Sonnet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

... A Comparison of Two Pre 1914 Poems -Remember, Christina Rossetti -Sonnet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ENGLISH: UNIT 4 - ITEM 3 (5%) LITERARY HERITAGE AND IMAGINATIVE WRITING ENGLISH LITERATURE: UNIT 3 -PRE 1914 POETRY (10%) Many parallels can be drawn between 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti and 'Sonnet' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, however at the same time there are distinct contrasts apparent. The title 'Sonnet' -or often commonly known as 'How do I love thee'- obviously introduces the piece in sonnet form. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, named after Francesco Petrarch, an Italian poet from the thirteenth century was introduced into English poetry in the early sixteenth century and has been widely used ever since. Its fourteen lines break into an octet and a sestet, differing from the convention of the English Shakespearean sonnet, developed in the early sixteenth century by Henry Howard

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