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. In Pyle's illustration, a connection between the Lady and the outside world she cannot directly see is demonstrated through Pyle's great detail that he creates from the words of Tennyson. Pyle's great detail in his painting brings forth the Lady's longing for the outside world, the incredibly long time she had been trapped in her tower, the personal freedom she adapts to with the breaking of the mirror and the unexpected reality of the freedom the Lady will receive in the end.
Tennyson describes some details of the Lady's situation and the contents in her room, such as her seemingly magical tapestry and the images woven into the tapestry that can lead to an understanding to the Lady's fascination with the outside world she is not allowed to see. "There she weaves by night and day/A magic web with colours gay" (Tennyson 37-38), these lines in the Lady of Shalott describe the Lady weaving some type of colorful tapestry, possibly magical in detail or skill. Reading further into the poem, Tennyson includes "She has heard a whisper say,/A curse is on her if she stay/To look down to Camelot"(39-41), by reading these three lines, it is determined that the Lady believes she may have a curse upon her by a whispering source. The Lady knows not what this curse may be but she cannot look down upon Camelot, or else she may obstruct the assumed curse upon her. Further more, Tennyson writes "And moving thro' a mirror clear/That hangs before her all the year,/Shadows of the world appear"(46-18), with this given information it is understood that the Lady possesses a mirror from which she can indirectly look upon the world outside of her tower.
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". ...
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...
The Lady of Shalott ` Once upon a time there was a mystery lady who lived in a castle an island, in a river near a town called Camelot. ... In this castle this lady weaves night and day. ... She found a little boat moored underneath a willow tree and she carved the name, "The Lady of Shalott," on the side of the boat. ... People were spilling onto the wharf's and they read the name of the boat which read, "The Lady of Shalott." ... The knight who said that was none other than Sir Lancelot, maybe there could have been love if The Lady of Shalott hadn't of broken the curse. ...
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. ...
