Lady Of Shalott Comparison

The poem, "The Lady of Shalott" by Lord Alfred Tennyson tells the story of a mysterious young lady who was cursed for a reason that she does not understand to remain in one of four towers on an island called Shallot in the middle of a river near Camelot. She is cursed to continuously weave, however she is able to catch shadows and reflections of the world through a mirror that was positioned for her to see the opposite side of the tapestries that she was held captive to work on. The Lady is forbidden to stand in front of, or look directly out of the window towards Camelot, so she cleverly uses the mirror to catch glimpses of the people in and around the fields between herself and Camelot. There are many facets to this story yet one of the

(A discussion of the treatment of women in the Victorian era as critiqued by Robert Browning in his poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover)

In the poem “The Lady of Shalott,” we find a woman, who is trapped inside of her own home by a curse. She is faced with the fact that she cannot experience reality due to this curse that for whatever reason has been placed on her. The poet uses imagery and symbolism to portray the feelings in the story as well as the hidden meanings within the poem. Imagery within the story poses the mood of the setting. The poem states, “Four gray walls, and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers” (Part 1, Stanza 2). The poet describes the place in which the lady dwells as being very dreary, and lonesome. Also, the poet talks about the Lady of Shalott being “tired of the shadows” which also provides insight into the living conditions in which the woman resides.

This is a marvelous piece, which has been renewed and revised a countless amount of times. The earliest story, which relates to this poem, is Shrek. The reason why it is related is because, in “The Lady of Shalott” the lady is trapped in the tower and can’t get out (or the curse that is put on her will be unleashed). In Shrek, Fiona (which is the lady in the movie) must stay in the tower until her true love comes to her rescue (orders from her dad). Fiona is guarded by a dragon and she’s locked up in a tall tower which is surrounded by lava, so someone has to build up enough courage to deal with all that hoopla. She is also cursed though, when dawn hits and until the sun comes up, she turns into an ogre. So these stories, which are very different at parts, are so similar in others. The author of “The Lady of Shalott” is Mr. Tennyson (Alfred, Tennyson). He also wrote “In Memoriam, A.H.H.”, “Tears, Idle Tears”, and a passage we have already been through “Ulysses”. This is an extremely important author of his time, even our time. He wanted to show what was wrong with not just ourselves, but society. He also wanted to comfort

The Lady of Shallot Talks about a woman who is trapped in by four grey walls and four grey pillars. No one has seen the lady on the reaper who hears who singing echo. The Lady of Shallot weaves a beautiful web. She is unable to look down upon Camelot she has heard that a curse we befall her she is unknowing to what the curse may be. Thus, she only focuses on her web. However, as she sits there weaving a mirror hangs before her. In this mirror shows her “the shadows of the world” where she can see life out from her solitude. Nonetheless, she enjoys weaving alone, although becomes frustrated when she sees a funeral or newlyweds. An armored knight gallops on his fancy horse in the land of Shallot. As Shallot notices the knight she abandons her

Photography was not taken seriously as an art form, so many artist strived to elevate photography to the caliber of Pre Raphealite paintings. One photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, intervened by smearing vaseline on his lens, scratching the negative, or painting directly on his prints to elevate photography to hand-made work such as Victorian Era paintings. Photographers would also achieve this through organizing their photographs compositionally like a painter would. In fact, in Henry Peach Robinson’s photo-illustration “The Lady of Shalott”, he crimped the model’s hair to give it a painterly/wispy look. Additionally, he constructed the set and even waited for rain to take the photo. Despite the negative view of photography at the time, it

This poem was first published in 1832, when Tennyson was 23 years old, in a volume called Poems. Up to that point, Tennyson had received great critical acclaim, and had won national awards, but the critics savagely attacked the 1832 book, mostly because of poems such as "The Lady of Shalott" that dealt with fantasy situations instead of realistic ones. The next year, 1833, Tennyson's best friend died, which affected the poet as greatly as would anything in his life. For a long time, during a period that later came to be known as "the ten years' silence," nothing of Tennyson's was published. In 1842, a new volume, also called Poems, was published, to great critical acclaim. The new book had a slightly revised version of "The Lady of Shalott," and this version is the one that is studied today.

What we want today, what we view as idealistic is not what we want tomorrow. For example, you’ve received the new phone that you’ve always wanted all shiny and brilliant. A few hours later, a few days later it is only a shell of its former glory. Because even when we have reached the state of perfection, we are constantly creating new ‘perfect’ ideals, after that, ‘even more perfect’ ideals and the vicious cycle continues. Our unconscious unsatisfaction with ourselves and what we have prevents us from achieving pure joy. Born into a society, which manufactures our concept of happiness (glorifying wealth and fame), we are blindly chasing after expectations that have been planted into our mentalities by the media. This obsession with ‘making our lives better’ has resulted us in the loss of gratitude and self

The Lady of Shalott, one of the most well known poems about beauty is an allegory, a story that contains a literal and a hidden meaning. Parallelism of both meanings can be seen throughout the poem. For example, the lady of Shalott represents the artist and Shalott represents the artist’s shadow world. This poem has greatly influenced other poems related to beauty and has become one of the most discussed subjects in the literal world. Although the poem itself is unrealistic, the perspective of beauty presented at that time is realistic. The writer attained this by using literal device – anaphor, simile and symbolism. “The lady of Shalott” is emphasized and extensively used numerous times at the beginning of the verse. In this case, the usage of anaphor reinforces the meaning of beauty of Lady Shalott and how she views the world inside and outside of the tower. “The gemmy bridle glitter’d free, like to some branch of stars we se’(Tennyson).

The ending of Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” is simply heartbreaking. Tennyson’s voice remains absent throughout the poem, making it difficult to truly distinguish how Lancelot feels about the Lady when she washes ashore. He simply gazes down at her and notices “a lovely face” (1166). This is a feeble response to the risk the Lady of Shalott took in encountering the Knight. The Lady knowing her curse gazes at the village daily life from her mirror, as she weaves. Though the lady states “I am half sick of shadows” (1163), she grew tired of encountering the world through the mirror. Still she steadily remained the will power to continue to weave and watch as the world continues without her. However, she faces her curse, or quite literally

Waterhouse put many aspects of the poem in the painting. He chose to use the section of the story where the lady of shalott is about to sale off to her death. One things that could have influenced the making of the poem is that married women obtain the right to acquire their own property and the third Reform Act was stops short of creating a male democracy so some women where fighting for their rights. This poem could have been influenced by women's rights because, the main character was a woman and she was curious and could not leave the tower.

To conclude, the analysis of the artist, Vincent van Gogh and his paintings support that he is a prime example of how artists have a divergent perspective of reality and then their perspective is portrayed through their artwork. Specifically, Van Gogh grasped the notion of turbulence and then illustrated the science through his swirling brush stroke. Additionally, the true essence of flowers was depicted in Van Gogh’s painting by creating an aura of blue around the flowers to simulate the bee’s view of flowers. The artist’s also captured the intense emotion within his self through energetic patterns performed through his brush strokes. In summary, the character Lady of Shalott is the emblem of how artists see reality differently than what is

These thoughts of Jane’s could easily belong to the Lady of Shalott as well, and Tennyson gave me a glimmer of hope when he let Lady Shalott utter a similar prayer—“I am half sick of shadows”—but he soon smothers these sparks, taking the life of Lady Shalott. When Lady Shalott dies, my hope for any social progress dies. Bring out the poisoned apples, glass caskets, and high castles! The beautiful and mysterious Lady Shalott is not allowed to pursue any bit of passion; she isn’t even allowed to live: “A gleaming shape she floated by.” Gleaming and yet she is dead. Gleaming because she is dead. Why,

When The Lady of Shalott looks through her mirror she thinks not of her ability to remedy the situation and wallows in her suffering while staring at what she believes to be the perfect place better known as Camelot. Tennyson then juxtaposes his imagery of her tower when illustrating Part II with colors and depictions of happy people trotting along the road on their way to Camelot. Every other stanza begins with a line ending in with the word “Camelot” followed by three lines of description or action with the last line always ending with “Shalott.” Never are Camlet and The Lady of Shalott more than three stanzas away from each other, but never are they any closer. These back-to-back showcases along with the constant distance between the lines ending in “Camelot” and the lines ending with “Shalott” allow the reader to understand why the Lady of Shalott is so dependent on these shadows. Tennyson is using these devices to portray the paradox of keeping women out of society then not understanding why they are so dependent on others.

Tennyson portrays the isolation of women through the reoccurring theme of Romanticism, this is shown through the poet’s constant associations with nature being the centre of the poem. The poet focuses more on the surroundings of the main character as she lives “By the island in the river…And the silent isle embowers The Lady of Shalott.” Tennyson presents the speaker to hide the details of the actual lady, her imprisonment and the curse which leads us to believe she is a mystery as the nature around her seems overpowering and consuming her. Tennyson portrays the lady in the poem to be an embodiment of a typical woman of the contemporary culture as he describes ‘A charmed web’ which the woman is ‘weaving, either night or day’. The ‘web’ can be a symbol of slavery but also a symbol of creativity and possibility. When the woman tries to turn away from the web she refuses to be a slave and ultimately