The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I Literary Elements

The poem "When I Was Fair and Young" is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.

The poem "On Monsieur’s Departure" is written in an iambic pentameter form.

The word plum is used in the poem "When I Was Fair and Young" as a metaphor used by the narrator to suggest the things a person can enjoy only in their youth and which disappear once a person grows old.

The line "I love and yet am forced to seem to hate," from the poem "On Monsieur’s Departure" contains an alliteration.

We find irony in the poem "On Monsieur’s Departure" when the narrator claims she continues to love the man who abandoned her even though he caused her a lot of pain and suffering.

The poem "When I Was Fair and Young" is a meditative poem.

Because the poem "The Doubt of Future Foes" is a meditative one, there is no setting mentioned.

The tone used in the poem "On Monsieur’s Departure" is a tragic and painful one.

The protagonist in the poem "The Doubt of Future Foes" is the narrator and the antagonist is the person who decides to stand up against the narrator.

The major conflict in "The Doubt of Future Foes" is between the narrator's desire to help her country and the her political opponents who try to do everything they can to stop her.

The poem "When I Was Fair and Young" reaches its climax when the narrator sends away her suitors telling them she is not interested and she will never be interested in them as possible husbands.

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At the beginning of the poem "Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid" the narrator claims that the character she addresses has no reason to feel sad or want to mourn. This is proven to be an understatement because towards the end of the poem the narrator mentions the death of someone who was close both to the narrator and the character.

In the poem "The Doubt of Future Foes" the narrator alludes to the idea that the politicians are not interested in the wellbeing of the people they are supposed to represent and that they only care about themselves. Because of this, people end up suffering most of the time because there is no one protecting them.

The term root is used in the poem "The Doubt of Future Foes" to represent all those emotions which may push a person to behave irrationally and selfishly.

We have a personification in the line "Some gentler passion slide into my mind," in the poem "On Monsieur’s Departure".

The line "My care is like my shadow in the sun," from the poem "On Monsieur’s Departure" contains a hyperbole.

"Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid" contains an onomatopoeia in the line "his breast cried out in anguish".