Three Queens with crowns of gold—and from them rose A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur’d Arthur, "Place me in the barge,” And to the barge they came. –"Morte d’Arthur,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson What does the figurative language help convey to the reader? The queens are sad about King Arthur dying. The queens are regal and important people. The queens are the only ones who can help King