Echo Summary & Analysis
by Christina Rossetti

Echo Summary & Analysis
by Christina Rossetti

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The speaker of Christina Rossetti's "Echo" begs their departed lover to visit them in dreams, where they can see their lover's face again and relive all their past happiness. But while dreaming about this person gives the speaker much-needed relief from the pain of loss, their insistence on living in dreams and memories causes them to feel like an "Echo"—as if they don't really exist in the present at all. Rossetti wrote "Echo" in 1854 and published it in her first poetry collection, A Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862).

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