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The poem is known as Clare's "last lines" [4] and is his most famous. [5] The poem's title is used for a 2003 collection of Clare's poetry, I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by his biographer Jonathan Bate, [6] and it had previously been included in the 1992 Columbia University Press anthology, The Top 500 Poems. [7]
Here he wrote possibly his most famous poem, "I Am". [23] It was in this later poetry that Clare "developed a very distinctive voice, an unmistakable intensity and vibrance, such as the later pictures of Van Gogh" possessed. [1] John Clare died of a stroke on 20 May 1864, in his 71st year. [22]
In 1976, Niemöller gave the following answer in response to an interview question asking about the origins of the poem. [1] The Martin-Niemöller-Stiftung ("Martin Niemöller Foundation") considers this the "classical" version of the speech: There were no minutes or copy of what I said, and it may be that I formulated it differently.
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 – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [1] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...
I am the Bread of Life (John 6:35) I am the Light of the World (John 8:12) I am the Door (John 10:9) I am the Good Shepherd (John 10:11,14) I am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25) I am the Way and the Truth and the Life (John 14:6) I am the Vine (John 15:1,5)
The name of the poet is unknown, [12] but the poem dates from the early 14th century. [7] Opinions differ as to the dialect of the poem, and hence the place where it might be presumed to have been written. It has been identified as an Irish English poem, [2] [13] or again as the work of a poet in England writing in southern English dialect. [14 ...
Elias Lieberman was born on October 30, 1883, in St. Petersburg, Russia.At age seven, he emigrated to the United States with his Russian Jewish family. In 1903, he graduated cum laude from the City College of New York, where he joined the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.