Clare I Am

The poem “I Am” by John Clare is a very complex poem about the existence of life. John Clare writes about a very lonely man who feels invisible to all of mankind, especially the people he was closes to. In the first and second stanzas the speaker voices how nobody cares for him anymore and how everyone in his life has abandoned him. Throughout the third stanza the man longs for the escape of people. He feels that he would be “untroubled” when away from all the people who have abandoned him in his life. While reading the poem “I Am” the reader would get the sense that everyone has hardships and one way or another you have to get through it.

First and foremost “I Am” by John Clare uses a lot of figurative language to further help create the central theme. Figurative language such as simile, metaphor, imagery, and personification are used throughout the poem “I Am”. An example of personification is “into the living sea of waking dreams”, this classifies as personification because the sea cannot have dreams. In addition personification helps create the theme because “waking dreams” describes the feeling of isolation the speaker is referring to in the poem. Another

The mood of the poem “I Am” is very depressed and a feeling of being dragged along. Phrases and words such as “none cares or knows” and “woes” makes the reader feel the lonely feeling the speaker has felt all along. The guy is overwhelmed with the feeling of sadness and loneliness because of all the hurt he has felt from his dearest companions. Similarly the word “forsake” alone means purposeful neglect which, is not something anyone would like to hear. The speaker describes his friends as forsaking him because they have forgotten about the friendship. Mood creates the theme because it brings hardship which, is the central idea of the theme but, it shows not to get too caught in