clear image describing the Lady of Shalott. The revised version is much more discrete.
and ambiguous when describing the picture of the Lady. For example, although the Lady.
of Shalott is still envisioned in white, the words used to describe her association with this.
color in the revised version are in no way as defined and luxurious as a description of.
pearls would be. Instead, the Lady is more abstractly described as "robed in snowy.
white".
Why would Tennyson choose to eliminate these detailed images of pearls and.
velvet from the later version when, at first, he took the time to incorporate them into the.
description of the Lady of Shalott? The absence of a literary technique can actually be.
just as strong a concept in the development of a character as would its presence. One.
must remember that Tennyson wanted to convey the idea that artists must be detached.
from their subject so as to make an effective and accurate statement on society. This is.
what his female tragic heroine symbolizes. It is not merely enough to literally have the.
Lady of Shalott, the artist, hidden away from view in a tower on an isolated island. More.
effectively, she is also hidden away in the ambiguity of the lines. This second version.
provides no concrete image of the artist. By obscuring the details about the Lady in the.
revised version, she is not only detached from Camelot but also, since we can not.
construct a specific image of her, is mystified and detached from the reader.
The last stanza of Tennyson's poem is one of the most dramatic and significant.
changes between the 1832 and 1842 versions of this poem. Every line in this stanza has.
been changed to produce a drastically different conclusion. Although both versions of the.
poem are consistent in depicting the image of a shocked crowd peering at the dead body.
of the Lady of Shalott, the definition of the Lady of Shalott's identity is drastically.
changed. In the earlier version, the last words of the Lady of Shalott are revealed in a.
