Poem Comparison

Poem Comparison

Poem Comparison

Introduction

In this research paper we are going to investigate the next two poems “The Doubt of Future Foes” and “Beat! beat! drums!- Blow! bugles! blow!”.

Queen Elizabeth I composed The Doubt of Future Foes at a time when rebellion was rousing amidst her subjects. Elizabeth's kin, Mary Stuart or Mary, Queen of Scots was blowing on the embers of discord with rumors and lies of dishonesty and disloyalty on the part of Elizabeth. Mary furthermore asked to Elizabeth's understanding to gain aid when she was banished from her own throne. Though Elizabeth enclosed herself with counselors and advisors, she was evolving cognizant that she could not believe those round her. (Reynolds 1995)

Elizabeth refers to her cousin Mary as "the daughter of debate" since she had caused so much indignity and controversy. She predicts that no matter what clash Mary started, she would never have success because the Reformation of England has trained her, as Queen, to keep peace. No foreign or exiled person like Mary would sit at the throne of England, because the kingdom does not permit strangers ruling it. Let them go wherever else, Elizabeth states, because that will not be tolerated in my country.

The poem finishes with a resonating threat that foreshadows the fate of Mary. The executioner's sword which has not been employed in so long will strike off the heads of those that wish to alter monarchs, plus these implementations of death will bring joy and prosperity back to the Kingdom.

Elizabeth's prediction became reality when Mary was charged with being ornament to an attempted murder of Elizabeth and was beheaded in 1587, plus William Byrd wrote a song that echoed Elizabeth's foretelling almost twenty years before: "The gracious famous queen/Who lost her head of late/Doth demonstrate that kings as well as clowns/Are bound to Fortunes' fate,/And that no earthly Prince/Can so safe his crown/But Fortune with her rotating wheel/Hath power to pull them down". It was supposed among those who knew her that Elizabeth in no way wept again as she did when Mary was performed. Nevertheless, as a strong ruler, she did what was essential for the well-being of her country, plus she rid England of its opponents. She would have no more horror of future foes.

In “Beat! beat! drums!- Blow! bugles! blow!” drastic measures require to be taken at times. The alternative between what is right and what is incorrect is not ever straightforward, and the adversities that should be faced are often after the scope of the imagination. "Beat! beat! drums!- Blow! bugles! blow!" by Walt Whitman is a poem that endorses activity, and is a call to arms in the face of a freezing acrid truth: there is a conflict, and it sways everyone.

 

Thesis statement

“Beat! beat! drums!- Blow! bugles! blow!” is a response to inaction.

 

Literary analysis

Analysis of The Doubt of Future Foes

Symbolism

This poem concerns her frustration in the position, but more than that, it is a alert to her ...