1. A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep by Anne Brontë
... prisoner, implying that he has not yet succumb to dementia and that his rationality could return. This is a perfect example of the poem playing the reader's conflicting emotions off each other. The prisoner's life is a conflict that is very easily relatable: the desire to leave a prison and step out into freedom. The reader's empathy with the conflict lures them in, while ... ...
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