The poet Ampleforth is the character who was surprisingly thrown in the cell with Winston, the main character.
The surprise isn't really that the poet was jailed, but that he ended up in the same cell as Winston, after all, he had been slipping forbiden words into his poem's "translations" before, a very punishable offense.
Answer:
The idea is that it's hard but you'll be happy when you're done
He is 73 years old
Explanation: He is also 73 years old
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