![]() ![]() ![]() This beautiful poem, though tragic, was written early on in Tennyson’s poetic career, when “he was still heavily influenced by the artistic ideals of the Romantic poets… valued emotion, sensation, the beauty of nature, and the power of the imagination.” This rich visual imagery and style, along with the story itself, have stood the test of time and are still recognized as some of Tennyson’s best.Īs for critical discussion of the piece, the meaning by behind the story is still the subject of scholarly debate. Because of it – or perhaps in spite of it – she leaves her tower in a boat, sailing towards Camelot, only to die before reaching it. Hearing him, she looks – and thus brings the curse down on her. However, as Tennyson writes in the poem itself, “She knows not what the curse may be / Therefore she weaveth steadily.” Her fate catches up to her, though, when the heroic Sir Lancelot of Arthurian legend passes by below singing. She never leaves or even glances in the direction of the fabled city that lies just outside because of a curse that is placed upon her. ![]() It is the story of a woman locked in a tower on a island outside of Camelot, perpetually weaving. Published in his 1832 book Poems, it was first critiqued as dealing too much with fantasy as opposed to realism and, when Tennyson republished Poems in 1842, “The Lady of Shalott” had been slightly revised into the poem we read today (). The Lady of Shalott is one of Lord Alfred Tennyson’s more famous short poems. ![]()
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