This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- Created by: sidz_1.swfc
- Created on: 23-08-19 11:32
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- This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- Themes
- Isolation
- Admiration
- Time
- Spirituality
- Man and the Natural World
- Blank verse
- Iambic Pentameter
- No rhyme scheme
- Definitions:
- dell
- small valley
- pent
- prison
- orb's
- world
- dissonant
- lacking harmony
- bower
- gazebo
- dell
- Friend = Charles Lamb
- Mary Lamb (sister) stabbed their mother during an argument.
- Lamb looked after her instead of sending her to a mental facility.
- He devoted his life to her.
- She looked after him when he tried to drink himself to death.
- Coleridge was unable to go on their walk due to an accident:
- he burnt himself in a cooking incident.
- He was unable to walk for Lamb's entire visit.
- "Had dimm'd mine eyes to blindness!"
- "Now, my friends emerge // Beneath the wide wide Heaven"
- "My gentle-hearted Charles! For though has pined // And hunger'd after Nature"
- "On the wide landscape"
- "A delight // Comes sudden on mu heart, and I am glad // As I myself were there!"
- "No sound is dissonant which tells of Life."
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