The Prisoner
The Prisoner - meaning Summary
Life Moving Through Uncertainty
The poem presents a single figure—a girl who represents life—moving through ambiguous, "indecisive" branches. By day she carries a small mirror that reflects light and implies purity and radiance. As night falls her path becomes lost; she wanders and weeps dew, suggesting sorrow, confinement, and the pressure of time. The repeated phrase frames a contrast between fleeting brightness and an enclosing, imprisoning darkness.
Read Complete AnalysesThrough the indecisive branches went a girl who was life. Through the indecisive branches. She reflected daylight, with a tiny mirror, which was the splendour, of her unclouded forehead. Through the indecisive branches. In the dark of night, lost, she wandered, weeping the dew, of this imprisoned time. Through the indecisive branches.
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