"Remembrance (Cold in the earth)" is a poem written in 1845 by the English poet and novelist Emily Brontë An elegy, "Remembrance" explores death, grief, and loss, as the speaker mourns her first and only love, who died 15 years earlierBrontë originally wrote the poem in the voice of a character from an imaginary world, Gondal, that she had invented with her siblingsMy scared ghost peeling off me Distortion, she says, as if she has just made it up And then she is quoting a line from a poem Or is it a whole poem, I wish I could rememberEmily Dickinson was an extremely influential American poet, and she was known for being a member of the transcendentalist movement Her works were recognized after her death for their dark subject matter, use of form, and syntax, but more importantly, she was a representation of the modern American Dream
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