The poem majorly runs on two themes, the parallel between the artist and a middle class woman and their lives individually. The lady at the end sees the knight and is attracted by him and thus leaves her house and rows a boat and ultimately dies probably because of the curse. The house of the lady has a magic mirror which reflects the world outside and the lady weaves the same images. The lady is enclosed and captured in the four walls of her house, present on an island in the midst of a river that leads to the castle of Camelot. The curse is not clear as to its origin and nature. The poem Lady of Shallot discusses of a curse which was drawn upon the lady. He addressed the hardships of the people in the mediocre strata. Tennyson was a writer of the middle class. The ideas which he addresses, the readership he obtains and the people in who’s interest he writes. Paving way for a hard life for him hence giving birth to a poet.Ī poet is recognised by the poems he writes. Life for such people depends upon the land they own and it was tough for him as grandfather had excluded his father from the property. Tennyson was the third son of his father who was a parson. The poem is one of the major works of Tennyson regarding the illustrated themes. The poem was extensively changed till 1842. The poem ‘Lady of Shalott’ is a part of the collection ‘Poems’ published in 1832.
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