Song by Christina Rossetti
The narrator in Christina Rossetti's "Song" asks that her lover make no spectacle of devotion after her death. There is no need for singing "sad songs," or planting "roses" or a "cypress tree." Principally, the narrator believes these events to be of little consequence because, as a dead person, she cannot receive these examples of gratitude. After death, she will experience no "shadows" or "rain" or "the nightingale" singing a song embodying her lover's sorrows; the narrator will experience no earthly events.
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