My initial reaction of “I am” By John Clare, was feeling the emotions of extreme loneliness and depression from the narrator.Although the poem was beautifully written, it was created during the narrator deepest time of distress, but it also gives good visual image and description of the meaning of loneliness. When his friends were starting to leave and forget about him, he felt as if he was dead. Through this the repetition of “I am” comes into play, he uses the repetitions as another way of stating that he was still alive and has feelings too. Thus it was through this extreme depression that he wishes and longs for death in the last part of the poem..
The narrator’s friends also seem to be the cause of his loneliness. While living in the …show more content…
The narrator compares himself to vapors because he feels like he's nothing. Lines seven and eight also lead up to the same thing, “Into the nothingness of scorn and noise/Into the living sea of waking dreams” (line 7 and 8). In these lines the narrator uses a another figurative word that is called anaphoras. To tell us how he is like a “ vapours toast” , he uses "into the nothingness of scorn and noise" and "into the living sea of waking dreams.". He describes the “scorn and noise” as something that people do to him. Most people that know him probably talk about him with “scorn” , but to him is just a bunch of “noise”. So basically the things that people say about him is most likely a bunch of empty talk. The "waking dreams" part just describes the way the narrator experienced his loneliness. Also when he describes the sea as “living” he uses it as a way to say that he was alive …show more content…
Even though it's a "living sea," death is everywhere. Then, sadly, all of his “life's esteems”, which is everything that he once valued, end up being a "vast shipwreck"
Lines eleven and twelve start to change his focus. “Even the dearest, that I love the best/Are strange—nay, rather stranger than the rest” (lines 11 and 12). While he talked about death a lot before, he changes the focus by plainly saying that the people he once loved don't mean anything to him anymore, they seem "strange.". When a person starts to change, their older self dies in the process . So considering the fact that nobody seems to care about him and only see him as non existent, it would be natural to feel no connection to thought people.
The poem's final stanza starts off with the narrator longing for "scenes" where man has never been, and where women have never smiled or wept. “I long for scenes, where man has never trod/A place where woman never smiled or wept/There to abide with my Creator, God;” (lines 13-15). This "place" that the narrator says he wants to go live is Heaven, since he wanted to "abide" in a place with God. Another point the narrator tried to make was that only living people walk and smile. Through this the narrator describes that he is tired of all the "death" around him and starts actually yearning
The narrator’s friends also seem to be the cause of his loneliness. While living in the …show more content…
The narrator compares himself to vapors because he feels like he's nothing. Lines seven and eight also lead up to the same thing, “Into the nothingness of scorn and noise/Into the living sea of waking dreams” (line 7 and 8). In these lines the narrator uses a another figurative word that is called anaphoras. To tell us how he is like a “ vapours toast” , he uses "into the nothingness of scorn and noise" and "into the living sea of waking dreams.". He describes the “scorn and noise” as something that people do to him. Most people that know him probably talk about him with “scorn” , but to him is just a bunch of “noise”. So basically the things that people say about him is most likely a bunch of empty talk. The "waking dreams" part just describes the way the narrator experienced his loneliness. Also when he describes the sea as “living” he uses it as a way to say that he was alive …show more content…
Even though it's a "living sea," death is everywhere. Then, sadly, all of his “life's esteems”, which is everything that he once valued, end up being a "vast shipwreck"
Lines eleven and twelve start to change his focus. “Even the dearest, that I love the best/Are strange—nay, rather stranger than the rest” (lines 11 and 12). While he talked about death a lot before, he changes the focus by plainly saying that the people he once loved don't mean anything to him anymore, they seem "strange.". When a person starts to change, their older self dies in the process . So considering the fact that nobody seems to care about him and only see him as non existent, it would be natural to feel no connection to thought people.
The poem's final stanza starts off with the narrator longing for "scenes" where man has never been, and where women have never smiled or wept. “I long for scenes, where man has never trod/A place where woman never smiled or wept/There to abide with my Creator, God;” (lines 13-15). This "place" that the narrator says he wants to go live is Heaven, since he wanted to "abide" in a place with God. Another point the narrator tried to make was that only living people walk and smile. Through this the narrator describes that he is tired of all the "death" around him and starts actually yearning