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Unit 8: Love Lives beyond the Tomb by John Clare

8.11 Review Questions Notes

1. Explore the ways in which Clare’s writing reflects some of the basic principles of
Romanticism.

2. Imagination was seen as the key to Romantic poetry. How do you feel John Clare explores
the use of the imagination throughout this collection of poems?
3. The fusion of pain and pleasure is a key concept in Romantic thinking. How do you feel
this is explored in John Clare’s poetry?
4. John Clare’s writing is characterised by his passion for nature. Consider the ways Clare
presents his relationship with nature throughout this collection of poems.
5. Clare saw himself as a man on the outside of society. Within his writing, how does he
explore this sense being an outsider?
6. Much of Clare’s poetry concerns itself with isolation and loneliness. Consider the ways in
which these emotions are explored within this collection of poems.

7. Critically analyse the poem Love Lives Beyond the Tomb.
8. Write a note on Clare’s poems catering to the theme of love.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Biographer 2. Rural Muse
3. 20 May, 1864 4. Mary Joyce
5. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

8.12 Further Readings

Books Bate, Jonathan. (2003). John Clare: A Biography, Picador.
Haughton, Hugh, et al., ed., (1994). John Clare in Context, Cambridge.
Heawood, Jonathan. John Clare: A Biography.

Online links http://blogs.dickinson.edu/romnat/2011/06/07/john-clare/

http://intranet.cramlingtonlv.co.uk/english/a2/johnclareworkbook.pdf
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-paraphrase-analyse-critically-
the-poem-love-420056

http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/then-what-about-question-line-end-
where-spring-420246
http://www.johnclare.info

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/23/biography.classics

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