Explore the Use of Language in the Poem Summer Images

Writers choose words to create a particular atmosphere.

Read this extract from 'Summer Images' by John Clare and answer the questions in the activity.

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Me not the noise of brawling pleasure cheers,

In nightly revels or in city streets;

But joys which soothe, and not distract the ears,

That one at leisure meets

In the green woods, and meadows summer-shorn,

Or fields, where bee-fly greets

The ear with mellow horn.

The green-swathed grasshopper, on treble pipe,

Sings there, and dances, in mad-hearted pranks;

There bees go courting every flower that's ripe,

On baulks and sunny banks;

And droning dragon-fly, on rude bassoon,

Attempts to give God thanks In no discordant tune.

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