Comparison And Contrast

The Lady of Shalott vs. Romantic Period
The Lady of Shalott written by Lord Tennyson, the poem opens with a description of a field by a river that has a touch of romanticism because Tennysondescribes perfectly nature and in some way he gets inspired from it.
There's a road running through the field that apparently leads to Camelot, the legendary castle of King Arthur. From the road you can seean island in the middle of the river called the Island of Shalott.
On that island there is a little castle, which is the home of the mysterious Lady of Shalott. People pass by the island all thetime, on boats and barges and on foot, but they never see the Lady. In this part Tennyson talks about a sort of prison from which the Lady of Shalott couldn’t scape and this is totally different fromromanticism because they talked about individual liberty and sympathized with those who rebelled against tyranny.
Tennyson describes the Lady herself. First we learn that she spends her days weaving amagic web, and that she has been cursed, forbidden to look outside, again he’s talking about imprisonment instead of liberty.
Tennyson describes the Lady herself. First we learn that she spends herdays weaving a magic web, and that she has been cursed, forbidden to look outside. In this part The Lady of Shalott is being like rebel by trying to look what is happening in the outside world and thisis another characteristic in the romantic literature.
We also learn that she is "half sick" of this life of watching and weaving, here we find that the Lady is tired of being trapped inside thiscastle, so it’s another sign of rebelliousness.
One day the study Sir Lancelot rides by the island, covered in jewels and shining armor. When his image appears in the mirror, the Lady is so completelycaptivated that she breaks the rule and looks out her window on the real world. In this passage Tennyson is talking about the fascination with youth and innocence that questions of authority and...