To Althea from Prison

Your assignment :) :) :) ;)

What is the theme of the poem?

What is the poem about?

who is the author of the poem?

what war happened during the poem?

Our personal thoughts about the poem :)

I believe this poem relates to society today because getting grounded means you have no contact with anyone , This peom

deals with someones love even though they are trapped in a cage but they still have the freedom to dream and still love them with no remorse.

Answers !

The Rhythm and look of the peom

The theme of the poem is that No one can "imprison" or enslave the human mind.

the poem is about a letter to Althea.

The author is Richard lovelace.

the war was the civil war.

The rhyme scheme is as follows: ababacdcd.

Some of the lines do not rhyme becuase the

peom is hard to read in modern english.

The sound rhythm is as followed

lines one and three are the same as two

and four. The poem has bars that are

seperated with stanzas. It follows iambic

tetrameter and iambic trimeter.

Author & Background (:

Richard Lovelace was born at Woolwich in 1618. He was the scion of a Kentish family and inherited a traditional military distinction. His Fathers name was Sir William Lovelace. He was later killed at Grolle in 1628. Richard Lovelace was educated at the Charterhouse and Gloucester. His songs and poems about love & amusements about soldiers is what kept his career alive.

What kind of poem is this?

This is a lyric poem on the paradoxical theme of freedom while being in prison.

The Poem

To Althea, from Prison

By Richard Lovelace

By Cierra Goins and Xavier Perez

English IV

December 4th 2012

When Love with unconfinèd wings

Hovers within my Gates,

And my divine Althea brings

To whisper at the Grates;

When I lie tangled in her hair,

And fettered to her eye,

The Gods that wanton in the Air,

Know no such Liberty.

What is the poem

about ?

In The Poem To Althea, from Prison; Richard Lovelace dramatizes the nature of inner freedom. The speaker is a political prisoner being held in a cell. The poem is about Richard Lovelace being imprisoned during the civil war , because he sided with the king during a power strugge between King Charles and the parlement. His motivation while being in prison he feels free beacuse of his love with althea.

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Part Two

When flowing Cups 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 draughts go free,

Fishes that tipple in the Deep

Know no such Liberty.

Part Three

Stone Walls do not a Prison make,

Nor Iron bars a Cage;

Minds innocent and quiet take

That for an Hermitage.

If I have freedom in my Love,

And in my soul am free,

Angels alone that soar above,

Enjoy such Liberty.

When (like committed linnets) I

With shriller throat shall sing

The sweetness, Mercy, Majesty,

And glories of my King;

When I shall voice aloud how good

He is, how Great should be,

Enlargèd Winds, that curl the Flood,

Know no such Liberty.