Showing posts with label verse 13 an 14. Show all posts
Showing posts with label verse 13 an 14. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Verse 13 and 14 "The Lady of Shalott"

Again...we get heaps of information about the landscape and climate setting the mood, but where is the information about the Lady herself?"She left the web, she left the loom
She made three paces through 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.
In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining.
Heavily the low skies raining
Over tower'd Camelot;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And around about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott."
Now maybe I'm being picky...but that last line is usually interpreted as she(the Lady of Shalott) wrote her name around the prow of the boat,and I know in a later verse it is said "around the prow they read her name", but lack of punctuation means I read the line as The Lady of Shalott was writing in the vicinity of the prow :S

Enjoy :D XXX
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