This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- First Published: 1800
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Nature, Friendship, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Captivity, Trees, Meditation, Gardens or gardening
The Poem
“This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” is a moderately long (seventy-six lines) poem divided into three verse paragraphs. Its speaker is clearly the poet himself. The poem is “Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London,” and in line 27 and the final nine lines, the poet openly addresses his friend. Nevertheless, the poem opens as a private meditation and continues in that vein for most of its length; Lamb is addressed only infrequently, and then as an absent friend. Though Samuel Taylor Coleridge termed this a “conversation poem,” it may be described...
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