Poem · 1846
The Prisoner
Emily Brontë
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Poem · 1846 · English · Victorian
The Prisoner
A confined speaker describes inward release through visionary experience.
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Physical enclosure and spiritual expansion are held together. The return to bodily consciousness is a painful interruption, not a simple defeat of imagination.
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A confined speaker describes inward release through visionary experience.
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