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I Am" (or "Lines: I Am") [1] is a poem written by English poet John Clare in late 1844 or 1845 and published in 1848. It was composed when Clare was in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum [ 2 ] (commonly Northampton County Asylum, and later renamed St Andrew's Hospital), isolated by his mental illness from his family and friends.
February 27, 1917. (1917-02-27) (aged 69) Woodhaven, Long Island, New York. Signature. John Wallace ("Captain Jack") Crawford (1847–1917), known as "The Poet Scout", was an American adventurer, educator, and author. "Captain Jack" was a master storyteller about the Wild West and is known in American history as one of the most popular ...
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
The poem is an ode, and its subject is the pursuit of the human soul by God's love - a theme also found in the devotional poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Moody and Lovett point out that Thompson's use of free and varied line lengths and irregular rhythms reflect the panicked retreat of the soul, while the structured, often recurring refrain suggests the inexorable pursuit as it ...
Charles J. Shields. photograph by Michael Bailey. Charles J. Shields (born December 2, 1951) is an American biographer of mid-century American novelists and writers. Raised in a Chicago suburb, Shields attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating with degrees in English (1974) and American history (1979).
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Language and literature. "I Am that I Am", a common English translation of the response God used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for His name. I am (biblical term), a Christian term used in the Bible. "I Am" (poem), an 1848 poem by John Clare. I Am: Eucharistic Meditations on the Gospel, a 1912 book by Cabrera de Armida112.
Cycle of the West. A Cycle of the West is a collection of five epic poems (called " Songs ") written and published over a nearly thirty-year span by John G. Neihardt. As one extended work of literature, the Cycle treats historical topics from the American settlement of the Great Plains and the displacement of the Native American cultures there.