Study Questions on "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" and "To Althea, from Prison"

(BTW, "grates," rather than iron bars, were often mounted in prison windows.)

     Study Questions for both of the poems by Lovelace:
  1. In each, who is being addressed? In each, what is the situation of the speaker?
  2. In each, what is the verse form and the rhyme scheme?
  3. In each, what is the tone?