Question
In a sonnet often given this name, the speaker attempts to flee to “solitude from passions dream" but can’t escape knowing that he belongs to the race “of men disdaining bounds of place and time.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this title commonly given to two different poems by John Clare. In his more famous poem with this name, written inside the St. Andrews mental hospital, the speaker calls himself “the self-consumer of my woes.”
ANSWER: “I Am” [accept “Sonnet: I Am” or “I Only Know I Am”]
[10e] John Clare’s asylum notebooks contain letters addressed to a woman with this last name. Later on, St Andrews housed the dancer Lucia, the daughter of an author with this surname who wrote Dubliners.
ANSWER: Joyce [or Mary Joyce; or Lucia Joyce; or James Joyce]
[10m] A John Clare poem titled for this character contains a “song” locating the place where “Mary loved to be” and planted flowers. In a four-canto poem dedicated to “Ianthe,” this jaded young title character roves around Europe.
ANSWER: Childe Harold [or Child Harold; accept Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (by Lord Byron)]
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>
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