"Poetry allows poets to give form to experiences and feelings which are difficult to put into words" do you agree with this view?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:21:41
All poems in this anthology deal with expression. However, John Clare's 'I am' and Christina Rossetti's 'Remember' are two of the best examples of expression and how it fits into poetical form. John Clare's 'I am' is an example of romantic poetry that deals with death and loneliness. It was written while John Clare was in a mental asylum, and it deals with his feelings and experiences there. The first line introduces us to his
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change in religious attitudes. In pre-Victorian poetry almost all elegies would have had, at least, some reference to God and heaven, just like John Clare does. So in conclusion John Clare's poem manages to encapsulate the feelings of loneliness of mind into a religious quest for heaven. Christina Rossetti's poem encapsulates the feelings of 'moving on' after the death of a loved one as if death was the loneliness that John Clare felt in life.
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