pickI had bought this book used over ten years ago. I loved the way it was written. It is an Arthurian tale mainly told through the eyes of Elaine. I enjoyed reading this book. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
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pickI had bought this book used over ten years ago. I loved the way it was written. It is an Arthurian tale mainly told through the eyes of Elaine. I enjoyed reading this book. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
pickI chose this lovely illustrated edition of Tennyson‘s The Lady Of Shalott for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and thoroughly enjoyed it. I already have several passages memorized from watching the 1985 Anne of Green Gables movie over and over again starting when I was 9😆. This poem is so Anne, if that makes sense. Haunting, romantic and melancholy. Thanks for organizing @BarbaraJean ! 5⭐️
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#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent - The Lady of Shalott and Lancelot & Elaine discussion
Could either of these poems be seen as an allegory?
What themes do you see that would have been relevant for women in the mid-1800s?
How might either text contain parallels for women today?
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro‘ the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look‘d down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack‘d from side to side;
“The curse is come upon me,” cried
the Lady of Shalott.
🖼️: “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott” by John William Waterhouse
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This again! I need a comfort read this evening
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"Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right -
The leaves upon her falling light -
Thro' the noises of the night
She floated down to Camelot:
And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott."
The endpapers of this edition are so well done. Elaine expiring in the boat which resembles a coffin, bearing her to her death & the indifference of Lancelot.
A diverting way to spend five minutes, watching a Tate Gallery video about Waterhouse's three paintings inspired by Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot".
https://youtu.be/6a_b7jSEeB0
"She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
'The curse is come upon me!' cried
The Lady of Shallot."
pick"The Lady of Shallot" is a short poem, but full of romantic Arthurian images of castles, enchantments, and a doomed damsel.
Tennyson took Malory's tragic story of Elaine of Astolat's unrequited love for Lancelot, changing the knight's churlishness toward Elaine into mere obliviousness, but managing to retain the dreadful sense of the inevitable working out of the curse of a death foretold. I'm tempted to a re-read of "The Idylls of the King" soon.
