Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock
- Poem by Elizabeth I.
- Written during her time under house arrest at Woodstock 1554/55, poem dates 1555.
- Engraved into the physical and material world around her, this illustrates her urgency and desperate condition.
- Also displays her wanting to leave a lasting impression of her innocence.
- Copied down later by another party, shows that publication was out of her control
just as her fate was at the time.
- Her martyrdom becomes a symbol of her innocence.
- Reference made to the flight of
her joy, her 'joy' is personified.
This shows her complete and
consuming misery.
- At the end she makes a plea to God, but the rest of the
poem avoids overtly religious rhetoric.
- Image of Fortune displays her unfair
treatment as something that is down to
fate, not decided by herself or Mary and
is unavoidable. Avoids blaming Mary.
- "Causedst the guilty to be loosed from lands where innocents were enclosed"
- "caused the guiltless to be reserved, and freed those that death had well deserved.