First Love - John Clare

Second Stanza
1. "blood"
  1. links to heart
  2. connotation of pain
  3. embarrased
2. "eyesight"
  1. love made him blind
    1. couldn't see nature
    2. "midnight"
      1. normally love = bright, birds tweeting
        in reality it is darkness at noonday
  2. couldn't metaphorically see anything else
    1. so beautiful
3. "burnt"
  1. repetition of blood
  2. alliteration of b
  3. blackness
4. "words"
  1. couldn't communicate
    1. couldn't express fellings
  2. losing his senses
First Stanza
1. "struck"
  1. Violent, physical impact
  2. Play on words with "hour"; clock strikes a time
  3. don't associate with love
2. Sibilance
3. "bloomed"
  1. youthful
  2. embarrasment
  3. simile
    1. beauty
4. "heart"
  1. key symbol of love
  2. "stolen"
    1. without permission
      1. doesn't actually like him back
5. "deadly pale"
  1. love is dangerous, deadly
6. "ail"
  1. pain
  2. when she looked at him he couldn't do anything but feel pain
7. "clay"
  1. malleable
  2. manipulate clay
    1. his life is manipulated by her, now that he's in love
Third Stanza
1. "winter"
  1. cold time when nature dies
    1. flowers die
      1. love is natural and can't be controlled
        flowers have to die in winter
  2. rhetorical
    1. reflective
2. "snow"
  1. love usually associated with warm
  2. juxtaposition
    1. red flowers
    2. white snow
3. "silent voice
  1. oxymoron
    1. trying so hard to say something but can't
  2. "seemed" to hear it
    1. false hope
      1. she does't love him back
4. "heart"
  1. thing that gives him life has left
  2. "dwelling-place"
    1. where it belongs
    2. can't return
      1. lost his innocence to before he fell in love
        changed person
        No matter how love feels, it leaves a permanent effect
5. tone of sadness
  1. dying flowers
  2. as he recognises she didn't love him

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