Romantic poetry puts the self before everything including the outside world: compare "I am" by John Clare to "So we'll go no more aroving" By Lord Byron
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Romantic poetry puts the self before everything including the outside world: compare 'I Am' to one other poem of your choice in terms of theme and poetic technique
Both 'I Am' and 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving' put the self before
the outside world.
'I am' is wrote with no exception to this in the classical style of
romanticism. The first person or 'I' is used throughout the poem. 'I am:
yet what I …
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…this place be visited. 'I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, A place where woman never smiled or wept' (L13-14). Only in death can he achieve this feeling and desire. God will understand what no-one else can and let him live in peace, free as if in eternal childhood. 'There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling and untroubled where I lie' (L15-17).
…this place be visited. 'I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, A place where woman never smiled or wept' (L13-14). Only in death can he achieve this feeling and desire. God will understand what no-one else can and let him live in peace, free as if in eternal childhood. 'There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling and untroubled where I lie' (L15-17).
