Lady Of Shalott

The poem is written with a southern English accent, causing it to be humorous and sound lighthearted, however, the poem alludes to a deeper meaning. In most stories, if the main character is a woman, she speaks in very proper and polite English; even if English isn’t her first language. Machan addresses this stereotype by giving Hazel bad English and grammar, the poem doesn’t even have any punctuation. Princesses are required to have good grammar and proper English, which Hazel lacks, and she is okay with that. “howard johnsons ladies room” (3) is a hotel bathroom, showing that Hazel lives in a hotel, not a beautiful grand house. A few lines down, the frog offers to make her a princess, and she refuses, meaning that she is content with living in a hotel, and not in a ‘big, beautiful, pink, palace’. Hazel is happy with her simple life. After the frog tells her to kiss him, she yells, “ya little green pervert” (20). Unlike many female characters, Hazel doesn’t go around kissing whom-ever tells her to kiss them. She likes living in reality, not being a princess in a magical

In the poem, the main character is a young girl, who seems to be unhappy with her father’s words towards women.

The title “Myth” seems to be appealing to the Greek tradition of storytelling, and the poem itself seems to be motivated by or at least influenced by Erebus, a Greek deity, who is the personification of darkness and shadows. In Greek mythology, Erebus, is referred to as the limbo the dead have to pass to reach Hades, who rules the underworld of death. In her poem, Trethewey uses Erebus’s as dream like “Rift” between sleeping and waking in which the speaker is able to see the lost loved one is alive and well. In the poem Trethewey references the Erebus in the beginning of stanza two and end of stanza five. Of course, this is easy to relate to Trethewey

Joan was brown the year of 1412, her birth place was in Domremy Bar, France. Joan was what you would call your average citizen during the 1400s. Joan lived on a poor farm with her parents Jacques and Isabelle Arc, Joan stayed close to home and in her time she had become a very skilled seamstress. Joan had not attended school for her parents were too poor and she was a girl. In Joan's free time she would admire the work of past war plans, Joan was fascinated by their war strategies. These were some of the events during Joan’s childhood.

When the narrator is a mirror, she falls in love with what she sees. The wall opposite her is “pink with speckles” and she views it as a companion. She falls in love with the wall because it is what she is seeing. She loves what she cannot reach or have. When the narrator becomes a lake, she shows a reflection of a woman yearning for her

The Greek myth is how about how the seasons change and the poem is Demeter talking to Hades. Demeter is talking to Hades about her daughter Persephone and how he kidnapped her and cause the

challenges and trials. With her companions she is encounters IT, a dark force of evil who dreams

Then she began to speak of a world with no room to move, rats that attack you can, bodies piled up, and men without skin. The she starts to see Sethe's face through water and she doesn't want to lose her. She wants to rejoin Sethe.

to the warrior who could defeat the mirror. Fija decided to use the fortune to leave the

She’d been taunting her husband, their whole relationship because she didn’t really love him, and she cheated on with Tom and still had Tom coming to the garage. Before the end of her journey, her neighbor Michaelis heard her yell at her husband saying, “Beat me!” he heard her cry. “Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward.” She yelled this possibly because her husband had her locked up inside their garage. She’d been shouting at and running away from her husband when she’d been struck by a car.

Carol Ann Duffy writes about the feelings of rejection, isolation and desolation that a woman who has been jilted at the alter by her husband might feel. I think that feelings such as this in both of the poems have been based on either literature or historical events, for example “Havisham” was most likely based on Miss Havisham, a

In the Poem, “The lady of Shallot”, the main character, Lady of Shallot spends the entirety of her life perceiving the outside world through the reflection of her window through a mirror. As the Lady of Shallot observes the obscured reality, she weaves all that she sees in the mirror to create a quilt. However, what the lady sees in the mirror is not an accurate representation of the real world outside of her castle. Thus, by this action, the Lady of Shallot is an accurate representation of how all artists create their artwork. In other words, the layers behind reality that is not palpable to human eyes are what artists visualize and then illustrate on their canvas. To illustrate the emblem of Lady of Shallot, famous artist, Vincent van Gogh,

The Lady of Shallot can be interpreted as a symbol of artists and their commitment to their work, in this poem represented by weaving, but also paralleling Tennyson and his poetry. She sacrificed herself to her passion and ironically Sir Lancelot made her into nothing more than a piece of art, he said, “She has a lovely face; / God in his mercy lend her grace” (line 169) she can no longer weave “A magic web with colors gay,” (line 38) rather, just be objectified into a dead-pale beauty not able to offer anymore creativity.

The following close reading concerns itself with the Middle English Breton Lay Sir Degaré, though speculative, the poem’s composition has been dated to the 14th Century and the poem survives in six manuscripts and three early printed editions, it is a romance of high antiquity, preserved in the Auchinleck MS. Some suggest that the poem takes clear inspiration from the Middle English translation of Marie de France’s Le Fresne: Lay le Freine. Moreover, some propose that Sir Degaré is more accurately described as an emulation, believing it to be more an imitation made up from a variety of stories, as it borrows not only motifs but direct phrasing from Lay Le Freine. Not only do both texts share a similar rhyming scheme, rhyming couplets, and semi-alliterative lines, they are also similar in relation to common genre conventions. In this respect, the Breton Lay has been understood by many to be the predecessor to the modern fairy-tale, and indeed, Sir Degaré is enveloped in themes such as love, the supernatural, and critically, the correlation between the two constructs of gender, which themselves are manifested in the modern day fairy-tale.

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