Another interesting event happened this week at school. For my English class, kids are required to memorize and recite a poem to the class. While shuffling through the poems, I found a poem entitled "to Althea, from Prison" by Richard Lovelace.
The poem is copied below:
WHEN Love with unconfined wings
Hovers within my Gates ;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates ;
When I lye tangled in her haire
And fettered to her eye ;
The Gods that wanton in the Aire,
Know no such Liberty.
II
When flowing Cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our carelesse heads with Roses bound,
Our hearts with Loyall Flames ;
When thirsty griefe in Wine we steepe,
When Healths and draughts go free,
Fishes that tipple in the Deepe,
Know no such Libertie.
III
When (like committed linnets) I
With shriller throat shall sing
The sweetnes, Mercy, Majesty,
And glories of my KING ;
When I shall voyce aloud, how Good
He is, how Great should be ;
Enlarged Winds that curle the Flood,
Know no such Liberty.
IV
Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage ;
Mindes innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage ;
If I have freedome in my Love,
And in my soule am free ;
Angels alone that sore above,
Injoy such Liberty.
Obviously, there's the Hermitage part of the poem, which is referring to a home, which, coincidentally is the nature in which the Hermitage is represented in the show. Another is the similarity of naming. Althea, the object of the author's affection, and Anthea, Franz's (or Waldo's, if you prefer) wife. I think the poem is generally a good description of how their life would be had Anthea not gotten taken away by the feds.
I also think that Lyoko is the metaphor for the Prison in this place.
Thoughts?
