To Althea, from Prison Flashcards

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When love with unconfinèd wings

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  • his imagination liberates him from his surroundings

- metaphor with a bird

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Hovers within my gates,

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  • Althea hovers in his gates
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And my divine Althea brings

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  • Althea is perceived as a deity
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To whisper at the grates;

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  • connotations to intimacy

- re-united through imagination

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When I lie tangled in her hair,

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  • re-enforces the intimacy
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And fettered to her eye,

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  • re-enforces the intimacy

- imprisoned by her emotionally

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The Gods that wanton in the air,

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  • connotations of power

- freedom they possess

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Know no such liberty.

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  • the gods do not know the liberty he has
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When glowing cups run swiftly round

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  • connotations of camaraderie

- convivial (friendly) times drinking with friends

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Our careless heads with roses crown’d,

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  • carefree attitude

- conveys youthfulness and idealism

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Our hearts with loyal flames;

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  • loyalty to the king as young men
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When thirsty grief in wine we steep,

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  • drowning their sorrows in wine
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When healths and draughts go free -

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  • dash provokes thought before the next line
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Fishes that tipple in the deep

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  • metaphor comparing the amount that the men drink to fishes in the sea
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15
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Know no such liberty.

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  • paradox reminder
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16
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When (like committed linnets) I

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  • simile

- song birds in prison

17
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With shriller throat shall sing

18
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The sweetness, Mercy, Majesty

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  • harmonious sounds
19
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And glories of my king;

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  • harmonious sounds
20
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When I shall voice aloud how good

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  • he supports King Charles 1
21
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He is, how great should be,

22
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Englargèd winds, that curl the flood,

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  • he is powerfully voicing his opinion
23
Q

Know no such liberty.

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  • he is freer than any force of nature
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Stone walls do not a prison make,

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  • he has mentally escaped his prison
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Nor iron bars a cage;
- can not be imprisoned despite his surroundings
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Minds innocent and quiet take
- and innocent mind will find sanctuary when imprisoned
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That for an hermitage.
- a secluded cottage
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If I have freedom in my love,
- freedom of emotion
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And in my soul am free,
- freedom of emotion means freedom
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Angels alone soar above,
- he sees himself as free as the angels up above
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Enjoy such liberty.
- freedom is no different to the angels
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Overview
- Sets of 8 lines (octaves) - ABABCDCD (restriction he faced in prison and monotony) - Iambic tetrameter (dull and monotonous) - paradox of freedom whilst still confined