'Analysis of First Love by John Clare\r'

'First heat is a poem, which encapsulates the carry out the poet has falling in hump for the starting signal time. It is rejoicing the discern he attained for a charwoman named bloody shame Joyce however there is woefulness and a stamp of dissatisfaction hovering in the background. This feeling exists, as the hump was unre quite and. The poem has an underlying lumber of innocence and flurry of emotions as it is the poets rattling first attempt at revel exhibiting his feelings for Mary. The opening of the first stanza lonesome(prenominal) shows how fast and unexpected the feeling was as he was never ‘struck before that min’.\r\nThis is followed my sibilance alliteration ‘ so sudden and so harming’ further emphasizing on the shock and bewilderment of the overwhelming feeling confirming it is a new discover. He uses his ‘ means’ as a sign that she has ‘stolen’ completely ‘away’ however unk forthwithingly. The carve up continues to describe how he physically mat ill as his ‘face moody watch a deadly pale’. Generally when a person go in making love the first intellect is that the ‘blood [is] rushed‘ to the face, which occurs as a latter reaction.\r\nThis could be because he probably already dispositiond that the love could not be re twistinged as he didn’t say allthing to her instead he hoped that his look would convey the message ‘words from my look did start’. He never came goal to even touching or talk to her however the line ‘all come outed to turn to clay’ conveys the strong run intoion he attained for her. He also shows how the woman is in control of their (hallucinated) relationship as she could mould and re-mould him as per her wish. In the randomness stanza he goes on to describe more(prenominal) of his emotions brought forward by this interaction.\r\nHe makes it quite visual for us of how the love ha s its affect on him and how he flushes with embarrassment so much that for a moment he feels blind. The physical invasion of love relates the experience of love and loss. His livelihood, his emotions were all now and focused on this one fille so much so that it ‘seemed midnight [to him] at noonday. This stanza ends on a very sad but dramatic note when he says that ‘blood burnt around my middle’ because he was in terrible trouble oneself emotionally as well as physically.\r\nThe pace of the poem is however slows tear in the last stanza. The poet seems depressed that the love he encompasses for Mary will never be fulfilled. The stanza begins with the poet asking rhetorical questions. In the first question he refers to crests over again like in the first stanza when he says ‘her face bloomed like a sweet flower’ it shows how innocent the love is and as they were never in physical opposition even virginity. excessively Cl be admits that him and Mary could never be together as shown forrard by the comparison of ‘flower’ and ‘ pass’.\r\nAccording to him it will be as hard for their relationship to bloom as it would be for a flower in wintertime and slowly it will loll and die. The encourage question shows his desperate depression. It understandably implies love as cold, deceitful and to be handle with caution. But he himself plunk into it and continually obsesses about her. Love has a very strong physical encounter within his body. These new feeling seem to have shaken him with surprise. The line ‘my middle has left its dwelling swan’ exhibits the sense of seclusion and desertion that he feels.\r\nIt includes rhetorical questions such as â€Å"are flowers the winters p reference? ” and I”is love;s sleep with always snow? ” the reference to flowers takes us back to the simile in the opening of the poem where the develop of her face is compared to that of a flower suggestive of the blossoming of his love for her . it is in sharp contrast to the second reference of the flower which can only wilt and die in winter rather than blossom suggesting the lack of any mishap of the two coming together.\r\nAlso read: In Exile poesy Analysis Arthur Nortje\r\nHe refers to her face blooming like a sweet flower signifying the blossoming of his love which contrasts with the second reference to the flowers which is compared to winter suggests the lack of any possibility of them coming together just as the flower. the second question shows his desparate depression implying that love is cold deceitful and to be treated with caution . having drowned him in her live now it seems impossible for him to come out of it as my heart has left its dwelling place there is a sense of loneliness and the desertion that lurks towards the end of the poem qualification the lector to almost empathize with the poet.\r\nWe are make to go through the experience and as the poem uses a daybook form, it almost appears as if the poet is pouring his heart onto the paper. This is what makes the poem stand out as one can really patronage with him. He uses similes ‘her face bloomed like a sweet flower’, metaphors ‘my life has turn into clay’, alliterations such as ‘so sudden so sweet’ and veridical and effective images to make that possible. The rhyming anatomical structure of the poem is AB-AB-CD-CD.\r\nIn each split his feelings keep developing and we are made to witness this experience. The realistic images the poem has, helps the reader to understand the physical effects of be in love. The love he has was the sweetest, noblest and deepest love he has witnessed in his entire life so much so that it afterwards drove him to insanity. Therefore more than first love I would consider it to be his true love. I feel as if the poet has been successful in conveying the impact of his emotions throughout this poem. \r\n'