Romantic poetry puts the self before everything including the outside world: compare "I am" by John Clare to "So we'll go no more aroving" By Lord Byron

Romantic poetry puts the self before everything including the outside world: compare 'I Am' to one other poem of your choice in terms of theme and poetic technique

Both 'I Am' and 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving' put the self before

the outside world.

'I am' is wrote with no exception to this in the classical style of

romanticism. The first person or 'I' is used throughout the poem. 'I am:

yet what I am' (L1). The poems are relatively similar in terms of their

theme. Both describe places and activities, which they would rather be

doing. 'I am describes a fictional place in the imagination where the poet

longs to be. 'I long for scenes, where man hath never trod' (L13). 'So

We'll Go No More A-Roving' describes of a time of youthfulness that

has been lost to the poet. 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving, So Late Into

the Night' (L1-2).

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'I can be' - Poem on the Pavement

Both poets long and desire for their perfect place, a

place which has been left in their youth and can no-longer be visited or

revisited except maybe in death for 'I am'.

The poem 'I Am' describes the poet being in a place of nothingness, that

the world in which he lives is worthless. 'Into the nothingness of scorn

and noise' (L7). His life is empty, in his mind he is lonely because his

friends do not know or understand what he is thinking and feeling on the

inside. 'My friends forsake me like a memory lost' (L2). This is wrote in

the same mood and tone as 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving', this poem

explains how the poet has lost the feelings he longs to experience and the

place teat he wants...