Queens and Their Poems

Queen Elizabeth is an interesting person, as well as writer. Elizabeth had an incredible education, a thorough understanding of literature and it's rules, and a different perspective of the world that lead to an age commonly known as a golden age. Anything she wrote certainly showed her clear ability to use language to conceal as much as it reveals and to tread a fine line between self-assertion and self-abnegation. Queen Elizabeth, as a whole, was a great inspiration and basis for tons of brilliant writers in her time. She could command her writing in a way that eventually lead to people, like Shakespeare, using her and her ideas as their literary muse. Her own writings were never equal to others of her age, but she was still instrumental to creating this entire age of writing.

Her poem, "On Monsieur’s Departure", specifically brings about the idea that she must constantly worry about pretense due to who she is. Elizabeth was suffering, but there is no way she can show it. She hides her emotions and then uses poetry as an outlet. This more than anything shows what kind of spotlight she was in her entire life, just by being born into the royal family. This poem specifically shows how an author can bring emotions and some political ideas into the same work.