Christina Rossetii had expressed her regret and longing to recall the "first day, first hour, first moment" of the "unrecorded" first meeting of her youthful love. She consider the first meeting "mean so little" in the old days, she thought it was "dull" to remember the youthful love that she knew would not last long in her life. However, as time pass by, She felt regretful she would like and wish to "recall" the memory of the "days of day" and "first touch of hand in hand".
Metaphor, simile and personification were used in the poem as to express her emotion of regret. Christina Rossetii wrote "my tree" as to represent her life with metaphor. Also, she express memory to "thaw of bygone snow" by simile. She also made use of personification as to show the memory fade out into slip away. Besides, she had make use of words related to senses such as "touch", "see" and "say".
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Genie Gets Her WishMoreover, she used repetition, alliteration, assonance and internal rhymes. For repetition, she repeated the word "I could" many times as to express her longing to remember the memory of the meeting. For alliteration, she used the words like "meeting me" to attract us. For assonance, she stress on the vowel sound 'O' very much to catch our soundings. And for internal rhymes, she used words like 'hour' and 'your', 'see' and 'foresee', 'one' and 'know'.
Christina Rossetii used the image of season, time, memory, nature, evasion and nothingness in "I wish I could remember". She made the contrast in summer and winter in season as she express the past has gone just like the "bygone snow" by using metaphor and now her "first day, first hour, first moment" just like season and time go so fast and could not be...