The poetry of Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips unarguably has similarities in style and theme. All three writers composed poems about love and relationships; and emotion is deeply expressed through their verses. Each author allowed their unique experiences in love and loss to guide their capable pen resulting in a poignant understanding for the reader.
Queen Elizabeth, Wroth and Philips express a sense of jaded love in their poetry and make great use of figurative language in doing so. Queen Elizabeth’s “On Monsieur’s Departure” outlines the author’s grief over an unrequited love. Queen Elizabeth cannot outwardly show the anguish she bears for the man she does not marry: “I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, / Since from myself another self I turned” (Queen Elizabeth 5-6). “Song” by Wroth equally overflows with the grief that love leaves in its wake. “But too soon thy evening change / Makes thy worth with coldness range” reminds the reader that even a dazzling love will lose its luster and fulfillment (Wroth 8-9). In “A Married State” Philips takes to warning women of the burdens of love and marriage: “A virgin state is crowned with much content, / It’s always happy as it’s content” (Philips 13-14). Each writers’ stylistic choice to use …show more content…
Queen Elizabeth is mourning over the death of the relationship; she would rather “die and so forget what love ere meant” than to keep living (Queen Elizabeth 18). Wroth woefully voices that love is abruptly fleeting and all the worse for how sweet it begins: “A sweet flower / Once full blown, dead in an hour” (Wroth 11-12). And lastly, Philips gives the impression that she would not have been so discontented had she remained unmarried. She gives much advice to unmarried woman that they should “turn, turn apostate to love’s levity” (Philips
Queen Elizabeth, Wroth and Philips express a sense of jaded love in their poetry and make great use of figurative language in doing so. Queen Elizabeth’s “On Monsieur’s Departure” outlines the author’s grief over an unrequited love. Queen Elizabeth cannot outwardly show the anguish she bears for the man she does not marry: “I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, / Since from myself another self I turned” (Queen Elizabeth 5-6). “Song” by Wroth equally overflows with the grief that love leaves in its wake. “But too soon thy evening change / Makes thy worth with coldness range” reminds the reader that even a dazzling love will lose its luster and fulfillment (Wroth 8-9). In “A Married State” Philips takes to warning women of the burdens of love and marriage: “A virgin state is crowned with much content, / It’s always happy as it’s content” (Philips 13-14). Each writers’ stylistic choice to use …show more content…
Queen Elizabeth is mourning over the death of the relationship; she would rather “die and so forget what love ere meant” than to keep living (Queen Elizabeth 18). Wroth woefully voices that love is abruptly fleeting and all the worse for how sweet it begins: “A sweet flower / Once full blown, dead in an hour” (Wroth 11-12). And lastly, Philips gives the impression that she would not have been so discontented had she remained unmarried. She gives much advice to unmarried woman that they should “turn, turn apostate to love’s levity” (Philips