Harbouring unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, The Lady one day catches a glimpse of him in her mirror, and cannot resist glancing at him directly. She is doomed to spend her days weaving these reflected observations into a tapestry. Tennyson’s poem, first published in 1832, describes the plight of a woman who is confined in a tower and cursed, and whose desperate attempt to escape seals her eventual fate Īccording to the poem, the Lady of Shalott is imprisoned on the island of Shalott, and is allowed to see the outside world only through its reflection in a mirror. The Lady Of Shalott, painted by John William Waterhouse in 1888, depicts the tragic events from Alfred Tennyson’s poem the same name. The painters of the pre-raphaelite period often took inspiration from religion, theatre, and literature, depicting powerful and tragic tales in rich detail.
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