To Althea, By Richard Lovelace from prison, is appropriately doled out to the Dismissive school of artists. Richard Lovelace was an energetic supporter of Charles I, waging war for his lord abroad, and gambling animosity closer home. This lyric reviews his first spell in jail.
"To Althea, From prison" is a verse sonnet on the incomprehensible topic of flexibility amid detainment.
Speaker: He is a detainee who pronounces that the individuals who kept him can't prevent him from practicing his capacity to think and dream.
Althea: The lady to whom Lovelace addresses the lyric. Her character is unverifiable; she may even have been a result of Lovelace's creative ability.
The eight lines in every stanza of the lyric adjust between rhyming tetrameter