The Lady of Shalott is a poem that describes the magical Lady of Shalott, who lives alone in a tower and suffers from a mysterious curse. She spends her days weaving upon a loom, but can never look out at the real world or the people in it. However, one day, she does look out as the knight Lancelot rides by. The poem draws heavily on Arthurian legend, and contains themes of isolation, fear of the unknown, myth, enchantment, and magic.
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tenysson is a poem about an isolated artist trapped in her own pieces of work She can not escape the life she lives because of a curse set upon her when she was born Tennysons theme is that no one understands the world in the same way as the artist does because the artist is too distracted by desire to participate in the world this is shown greatly through tone imagery and symbolism in The Lady of Shalott Tone is the authors attitude towards the subject In the begi