Once upon a time there was a mystery lady who lived in a castle an island, in a river near a town called Camelot. She has never been seen before, the only time anyone knows she is there is when the reapers who are reaping the barley and rye from the fields near by hear her singing in the tower.
Round the outside of the castle there are snow-white lilies that blow in the breeze quite gracefully. The willow tree appears to form a whitish tinge as the breeze blows. The poplar trees also appear to quiver in the breeze. The breeze also shivers the surface of the water in the river to almost make the water seem darker. The castle itself had four grey walls, and four grey towers. The building looked very attractive.
In this castle this lady weaves night and day. The tapestry she weaves is full of different colours. She had a curse cast upon her, which meant she can't look out the solitary window, down to Camelot, that she has in her room. If she does then God knows what will happen to her! In order to prevent this from happening she will keep on weaving steadily and in all honesty she has no other care in the world at that point.
She has a mirror in her room, which hangs on the wall and shows the reflection of the outside world, which she weaves. Also in her room she has a wooden stool she sits on to do her weaving and a picture of herself near the window. There is nothing else in the room except a half-broken bookcase with any books on it, another reason why she knows so little about the real world. She can see the whirls of currents in the river; the grumpy, country people and the market girls in their red cloaks pass on ward from Shalott. She sees the reflection of an Abbot on an ambling horse and sometimes a curly haired shepherd or a long haired lad training to be a knight. She saw a few knights pass by her window and wondered what they were doing.
She was still content to weave the magic sights of the mirror through those silent nights.
In both versions, the Lady of Shalott is a body of creativity. ... The Lady of Shalott is an artist of both the loom and of images. ... It is these details that create a clear image describing the Lady of Shalott. ... In this version, the Lady of Shalott is awarded the last word. Her final words help construct an identity for the mysterious "fairy Lady of Shalott". ...
In Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, Tennyson writes about a woman bound to her room by an unspoken spell possibly cast upon her. Howard Pyle, an American illustrator and author, created a picture depicting the Lady of Shalott in her room in which she resided. ... First off, in Pyle's art piece, the Lady of Shalott has extremely long hair, possibly emphasizing how long the Lady of Shalott has been personally captivated in her room, with the negligence of hair up-keep. ... Later in the poem Tennyson writes, "The first house by the water-side,/Singing in her song she di...
For The Lady of Shalott, this imprisonment takes form in the "four grey walls, and four grey towers.... Both The Lady of Shalott and Ophelia lead similar lives, prisoners and servants of a male dominant culture. ... For The Lady of Shalott, the descent begins with her inability to view the real world. ... Madness is the engine of freedom for The Lady of Shalott as well as Ophelia. ... For both Ophelia and The Lady of Shalott, death is the only true freedom. ...
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson tells of a woman cut off from society and human interactions - the simplicities of life. ... In addition to male dominance, deprivation is a significant idea explored in "The Lady of Shalott". ... "The island of Shalott/ The Lady of Shalott ' (line 9 and 18). In stanza 1, we are introduced to the setting of Shalott, and it is said it is an "island", in the following stanzas the description proceeds but now instead of the "island" the "Lady" replaces it. ... Furthermore, passivity is an idea very muc...
English Coursework Pre 1914 Poetry John Keats and Alfred Tennyson Both "The Lady of Shalott" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A ballad" are pre 1914 poetry. ... "The Lady of Shalott" is a romantic poem which twists with a mystical curse. The curse sets on the lady of Shalott as she looks out of the window down to Camelot and perceives the life around her. ... In the third stanza Tennyson uses rhetorical questions this makes the reader think that the lady of Shalott maybe a myth "but who hath seen her wave her hand? ... In these lines it describes the life around her dying a...
According to them, poem such as "The Lady of Shalott" portray "socially alienated and hostile artist figures" in conflict with the moral demands of society (Simpson, "Elaine the Unfair" 343). ... Alaya, for example, argues how "The Lady of Shalott" constitutes the ultimate "expression of the unresolved dialectic assumed to be characteristic of the early Tennyson, artistic detachment vs. social responsibility" (274). Being one of Tennyson's most famous works, "The Lady of Shalott" is a depiction of an isolated, artist-like figure ...
In various ways, the poem "The Lady of Shalott" emphasized on the idea of the restrained woman in the Victorian Age. ... "The Lady of Shalott" demonstrates the ideals of the Victorian Age on how men and women faced division regarding public and private life. ... " (Gilmour 52) The secluded "The Lady of Shalott" resides in a world of darkness. ... The fate of "The Lady of Shalott" comes to fruition when she touches land. ... " For gazing at Sir Lancelot, the "Lady of Shalott" becomes a fallen woman and receives the punishment of d...
After reading the whole book, I got hold of a copy of The Lady of Shalott, and then it started to make sense. ... Her life has correlated with that of the Lady of Shalott. ... This imbalance is shown through the many connections to The Lady of Shalott and her fascination with Camelot. She wanted a life like that in Camelot all her life, just like that of Lady Shalott. ...