On Monsieur's Departure Post Reading Questions

What do the title and line 6 ("Since from myself another have I turned") seem to suggest has happened to "Monsieur", the person who inspired the poem

• He died.

• He left her because he was married.

• He left because he felt rejected.

• William Shakespeare stole him from the queen.

" What does prate mean in this sentence, "I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate"?

• regret

• either

• speak

• care

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In the second stanza, to what does the speaker compare her feelings?

• Her sorrow is compared to her shadow in the sun, a thing she can't escape.

• Her sorrow is compared to a bird that flies away from her.

• She compares her sorrow to that of Job in the Christian Bible.

• She compares her sorrow to that of her mother.

What does the word "care" mean in stanza two?

• joy

• love

• abhorrence

• sorrow

Based on your knowledge of Elizabeth the I, why might she have hidden her true feelings about the subject of the poem?

• She felt the man was beneath her.

• She felt torn between her roles as queen and her role as a lover.

• The man was another person's boyfriend.

• She didn't hide her feelings at all in public.