Question

A. Write a one page Summarize this peom

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 vapours tossed

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,

Into the living sea of waking dreams,

Where there is neither sense of life or joys,

But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;

Even the dearest that I loved the best

Are strange nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod

A place where woman never smiled or wept

There to abide with my Creator, God,

And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,

Untroubling and untroubled where I lie

The grass below above the vaulted sky

Answer 1

The above poem is by John Clare.

This poem mostly denotes the empty feeling that person has. The person after crisis or after joyful and negative days neither wants to have joy nor he wants to have sadness. All he wants to have is just the plain feeling.

The poem itself starts with sadness I am unknown to people, nobody cares for me. The poet is very stressed here, when he says that he is self consumer of woes which rise and vanish.This means everyday he is having some or the other kind of stress. The second stanza denotes that the poet is having empty feeling or feeling of nothingness. He doesn’t wants to experience joy or even life. His self esteem is totally low at this point of time. He is even claiming that his near and dear ones are are away from him. They have left him all alone in the sea that he claims.

He is so much desiring to have peace that he wants to go in baby position again and go back to sleep. Like baby doesn’t understands any emotion, he too wants to be the same and do not want to understand any emotion, he wants to see his life peacefully with neither joy nor unhappiness

This poem was written by John Clare when he was in mental asylum. He was into depression during this time.