John Clare (1793-1864) was born on July 13 at Helpstone‚ a village in Northamptonshire‚ close to the Lincolnshire fens. His father‚ Parker Clare‚ worked as a farm laborer. In his spare time his father was also a rustic wrestler and ballad singer. Clare attended a dame school in his native village‚ and then went to Glinton School in the next village. When his father became ill with rheumatism‚ Clare began work first as a horse-boy‚ then ploughboy‚ then as a gardener at Burghley House. In 1812 he enlisted
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unique for the individual beholder‚ and yet common themes run deep and have become metaphors more easily attributed and immediately understood than the word ‘love’ itself. The first point of note is the familiarity of the language used by John Clare in the nineteenth century to the anecdotal stereotypes and euphemisms of medieval literature and contempory rap lyrics. Love can be defined by its confusing ability to remain indefinable by perfect boundaries and text‚ but‚ also‚ it has a changeless
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In “Harvest Gypsies”‚ by John Steinbeck‚ John shows the readers the plight of the gypsies during the 1930’s. He describes their life and makes the readers sympathize for the families. Steinbeck shows sympathy through his writing for the migrant families by describing their living conditions‚ which is evident through them living in unhealthy tents‚ and on how the families are full of sullen anger caused by their children’s deaths. Throughout the entire story Steinbeck‚ describes their confined and
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A level English Student Guide by Julia Geddes‚ Kitty Graham and Helen Ince ~ Wessex Publications ~ Selected Poems by John Clare CONTENTS Page Using the Workbook......................................................................................1 How to Study Poetry......................................................................................2 John Clare 1793 - 1864 ..................................................................................3 The Poems A Country Village
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written by John Clare. The thoughts here come across as more idealized rather than believable. Clare starts of the poem by saying ‘I ne’er was struck before that hour’ the hyperbole used here conveys an overpowering sense of shock as he has never before felt love so strongly. The word ‘struck’ can imply to cupid hitting him with an arrow and as a result Clare is now love struck. The poet then tells us how ‘Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower And stole my heart away complete.’ Clare remarks
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This is an anthology of thoughts on First Love by John Clare‚ brainstormed version‚ not classified. The poem “First Love” is about John Clare falling in love for the first time. The poet explains what happens to him when he falls in love for the first time‚ and how his world and perspective view changes. He tells us what happened to him when he fell in love by saying “I ne’er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet” which suggests that he has fallen in love at first sight
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First love is a poem‚ which encapsulates the experience the poet has falling in love for the first time. It is rejoicing the love he attained for a woman named Mary Joyce however there is sadness and a feeling of dissatisfaction hovering in the background. This feeling exists‚ as the love was unrequited. The poem has an underlying tone of innocence and flurry of emotions as it is the poets very first attempt at love exhibiting his feelings for Mary. The opening of the first stanza only shows how
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Explore how the poet conveys his intimate experience of love in this poem First Love’ by John Clare is a poem written about unrequited love‚ and how love can die. To show this‚ the poet used poetic techniques‚ such as metaphors‚ contrast and images; however the tone and the pattern of syllables in the stanzas also played a major part. The first stanza has 8 syllables in each line‚ which expresses an optimistic feeling‚ showing that his life is full. The second one‚ though has a pattern of
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First Love by John Clare This expressible poetry by a man‚ who has deep feelings for the one his soul loves‚ has more meaning hidden between the lines if the reader will take the time to savor it. The first two lines are simple enough. It was the very first time he ever felt a love go as deep as his soul as soon as he saw her face. It was love at first sight for him. He felt as though he could not move‚ breathe‚ and then she looked at him and nothing else in his life mattered anymore but
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“I Am” is a poem that was written by John Clare during the 1840s. Clare’s rustic poetry had brought him considerable fame and wealth‚ which enabled him to escape the meagre life he had experienced up until that time. After some years‚ his rural style of poetry was no longer in fashion‚ and his poetry met with little success. Psychological pressures resulting from the need to make money to feed his family‚ the struggles to adapt his poetry to the changing times and his inability to reconcile his rural
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