Read the selection below from the poem “The King Sends Three Cats to Guinevere” by Marjorie Allen Seiffert and answer the question that follows. I send you three grey cats with gifts—(For uniformity of metaphor,Since Bacchus, Satan, and the HangmanAre not contemporaneous in my mythology)I send you three grey cats with gifts,Queen Guinevere,To warn you, sleekly, silentlyTo pay the forfeit. Source: Seiffert, Marjorie Allen. “The King Sends Three Cats to Guinevere.” BlackCatPoems.com. Black Cat Poems, n.d. Web. 7 July 2011. Which excerpt indicates that King Arthur knows Queen Guinevere has been unfaithful to their marriage?
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“uniformity of metaphor”“To warn you” signals that King Arthur is alerting Guinevere to a consequence or danger. In the context of the poem’s reference to paying a forfeit, the warning suggests he knows she has been unfaithful. The other phrases identify the queen or describe the poem’s imagery but do not indicate that knowledge.
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