Poetry by John Clare

[zheng89120]

He is one of my favorite poets, I find I can relate to his poems the first time I browsed through them. He is often overshadowed by the romatic poets (Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron), but nonthelessly he was a major poet that has a distinctive quality of simplicity, sentimentality, and cognizance. Please look at this great poet!

[mono]

Ah, John Clare - brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!
I cannot quite condone the title of the website, but I found some of his poetry here:
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/poets/81/

[zheng89120]

Here is the opening stanza of John Clare's poetry "I am", simply brilliant in my opinion:



I am: yet what I am none cares or knows
My friends forsake me like a memory lost,
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love's frenzied, stifled throes—
And yet I am, and live—like vapors tossed

[Lonely Soul]

John Clare is great - an ex of mine copied a few lines from a poem of his into the card he gave me on valentines day and it took my breath away. Imagine my pleasure when I learnt we were to study it in class.