Examples Of Figurative Language In Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I was a queen of england from 1558-1603 her reign lasted 45 years. She was the last monarch of the house of tudor. Her rieng followed that of her sister mary the first of england or “bloody mary”. During her sisters rieng she spent a year imprisoned because she was undersuspision for helping the protestant rebels. In her poem on monsieur's departure she contrast things which she feels with the complex emotion of love. Her poem is littered with hyperboles juxtaposition and paradoxes to describe emotion which she feels. In the first stanza it really lays into the hyperboles and juxtaposition as throughout the stanza it is exploring what she is doing and how she feels. Of the many examples in the first stanza it easiest phrase to find an example of this is “I freeze and yet I am burned”. It feels as though this phrase has no figurative language of any sense but more so is there to show the dramatic conflict in emotion and keeping appearances. Also there is a repetition of I then an action or emotion in the first stanza to reiterate the point that it is all applied to the author until the last line which says “Since from myself another self I've turned”. That line in an example of figurative language because she isn’t literally turning another person away she is turning what she feels

The first line it describes her care like a shadow following wherever she went do what she does but for some reason fleeing when she pursued it. While i cannot draw a logical meaning from this other than an emotion of depression or just setting up for the next lines. Where it states “his too familiar care make me rue it” which leads to the idea that his “too familiar” care is almost a mirror of her own in the ways described. The poem continues and talks about not being able to rid herself of the man until at the end it is a desire that is