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Who is the speaker? To whom is he or she speaking?

To Althea, from prison

Richard Lovelace

Poets Life

  • The speaker is the author, Richard Lovelace.
  • He is speaking to Althea
  • Speaking both to and about her
  • Born in 1618
  • To a wealthy family in Wollwich
  • Oldest son
  • Very well educated
  • Made a petition of the restoration of the Anglecan Bishiops
  • Wrote the poem in 1642
  • Was a soldier and eventually died from all his wounds
  • Although he was born into a wealthy family lost all his money because of his support to th royalist cause

Challenging words

The Text of Poem

  • fettered- a restraint with chains usually around the ankles
  • wanton- to behave in a sexually immodest way
  • allaying- to deminish or put to rest
  • tipple- to drink alchohol
  • linnets- a dark finch(bird) with red features
  • hermitage- a dwelling of a religiously discipline person

When Love with unconfined wings

Hovers within my gates,

And my divine Althea brings

To whisper at the gates;

When i lie tangled in her hair

And fettered to her eye,

The birds that wanton in the air

Know no such liberty.

When, like comited linnets, I

With shriller throat will sing

The sweetness, mercy, majesty,

And glories of my King;

When i shall voice aloud how good

He is, how great should be

Enlarged winds, that curl the flood

Know no such liberty.

What is the subject and theme?

  • subject- A prisoner content with his imprisonment
  • theme- freedom and love

When flowing cuprs run swiftly round

With no allaying Thames,

Our careless heads with roses bound

Our hearts with loyal flames;

When thirsty grief in wine we steep,

When healths and drafts go free,

Fishes that tipple in the deep

Know no such liberty.

Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet take

That for an hemitage;

If i have freedom in my love

If i have freedom in my love

And in my soul i am free,

Angels alone, that soar above

Enjoy such liberty

Literary Elements

What is the tone?

  • Repetition
  • Word choice
  • Love-flames
  • Speaking like a proud man as a former soldier
  • loyalty to the king

Bibliography

  • http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/lovebio.htm
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