"On Monsieur's Departure"
Title: "On Monsieur's Departure"
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1198 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
"On Monsieur's Departure"
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1198 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
"On Monsieur's Departure", with its highly interpretive nature and use of strong themes and appropriate literary devices, expresses the inner turmoil of its author, Queen Elizabeth, to the reader.
The basic concept of this 17th century poem is one of the divided passions of Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth loved her country with fierce loyalty and control, but also had her own personal needs, and though it is not entirely certain as to whom this poem was
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her than to live forward and exist with ever-constant turmoil, to live, to rule, to sacrifice oneself for something greater.
Through the use of different literary devices and a powerful backing theme, Queen Elizabeth has left the world with a literary victory. This poem is a saddening one, but as a love poem, it is expressing not only the pain, frustration and despair longing can produce, but also the strength and might that backs it.