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    Richard Lovelace was a 17th century Cavalier poet who was imprisoned for supporting King Charles I. While in prison, he wrote the poem "To Althea, From Prison" for his fiancée Lucy Sacherevell. In the poem, Lovelace expresses that although physically in prison, his love for Althea gives him a sense of freedom and that true liberty is found in the mind rather than being constrained by walls or bars.

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    Richard Lovelace was a 17th century Cavalier poet who was imprisoned for supporting King Charles I. While in prison, he wrote the poem "To Althea, From Prison" for his fiancée Lucy Sacherevell. In the poem, Lovelace expresses that although physically in prison, his love for Althea gives him a sense of freedom and that true liberty is found in the mind rather than being constrained by walls or bars.

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    Poem 2 - To Althea, From Prison

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    Richard Lovelace was a 17th century Cavalier poet who was imprisoned for supporting King Charles I. While in prison, he wrote the poem "To Althea, From Prison" for his fiancée Lucy Sacherevell. In the poem, Lovelace expresses that although physically in prison, his love for Althea gives him a sense of freedom and that true liberty is found in the mind rather than being constrained by walls or bars.

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    TO ALTHEA, FROM

    PRISON
    RICHARD LOVELACE
    RICHARD LOVELACE (1617-1657)

    • Cavalier poet

    • Born to a wealthy and politically well-


    connected family

    • Great supporter of King Charles I

    • An extremely unpopular monarch


    who was executed in 1649
    RICHARD LOVELACE (1617-1657)

    • In 1943 he was imprisoned for


    delivering a pro-Royalist petition to the
    House of Commons

    • It was while he was imprisoned at the


    Gatehouse Prison in London that he
    wrote this poem
    TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON
    • Probably written for Lucy
    Sacherevell
    • She was engaged to
    Lovelace
    • Mother of the Greek hero
    Meleager
    • Name was often used to
    describe a beautiful
    woman
    PARADOX: Metaphor  love is a free bird
    freedom in Free, no limitations
    imprisonment

    When Love with unconfinéd wings


    Floats, flies
    Hovers within my gates,

    And my divine Althea brings


    Heavenly, celestial
    To whisper at the grates;
    Twisted together When I lie tangled in her hair
    Tied or chained
    And fetter’d to her eye,

    The Gods that wanton in the air


    Fly freely
    Know no such liberty.
    Freedom
    Over-indulging in wine
    & alcohol Diluting

    When flowing cups run swiftly round


    Worry-free
    With no allaying Thames, Metonymy
    Thames
    Our careless heads with roses crown’d, represents
    England &
    Metaphor Our hearts with loyal flames; English politics

    Transferred Epithet When thirsty grief in wine we steep, Metonymy 


    rose is
    Soak When healths and draughts go free— synonymous
    with England
    Fishes that tipple in the deep
    Act of drinking
    Drink
    excessively
    Know no such liberty.
    Songbird
    SIMILE Caged

    High-pitched,
    piercing When, like committed linnets, I

    Alliteration With shriller throat shall sing

    The sweetness, mercy, majesty

    Powerful And glories of my King;


    Hold back, divert
    When I shall voice aloud how good

    He is, how great should be,

    Enlargéd winds, that curl the flood,

    Know no such liberty.


    REPETITION  REFRAIN

    Stone walls do not a prison make,


    Not all prisons are physical
    Nor iron bars a cage;

    Minds innocent and quiet take

    That for an hermitage:


    Retreat, refuge,
    If I have freedom in my love haven

    And in my soul am free,

    Angels alone, that soar above,

    Enjoy such liberty.

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