In this poem, the poet is in prison. But he insists that while his body might be locked up, his soul is free. No prison, he says, can jail his spirit.
In the first stanza, he says that he is free as long as he can love Althea and imagine lying tangled in her hair.
In the second stanza, he says that his soul is free as long as he can imagine drinking and having...
In this poem, the poet is in prison. But he insists that while his body might be locked up, his soul is free. No prison, he says, can jail his spirit.
In the first stanza, he says that he is free as long as he can love Althea and imagine lying tangled in her hair.
In the second stanza, he says that his soul is free as long as he can imagine drinking and having a joyful good time with friends, roses in his hair.
In stanza three, he says that even if he is locked in a prison cell, he can still sing like a bird. This gives him more liberty than the wind.
He might be in a prison, but he can still be happy.
In the final stanza he sums up his rebellious, in-your-face attitude about his imprisonment, stating the following:
Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
...
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such Liberty.
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