Through certain literary techniques, Alfred Lord Tennyson improved the message of a popular poem called “The Lady of Shalott”. The literary techniques used in the poem inspired artists and musicians to create magnificent pieces of art and wonderful music all based off of “The Lady of Shalott”. The storyline of the poem was another thing that pulled people in. In “The Lady of Shalott”, there was this island in the middle of two rivers. On the island was a castle, with a lonely woman named The Lady of Shalott in it. On the mainland, there was a highway that led to the magnificent city of Camelot. When people were on their way to Camelot, they didn’t really look deep into the castle because they were too focused on getting to Camelot. The lady …show more content…
A very popular song called “If I Die Young”, was greatly influenced by “The Lady of Shalott”. In the song, the lyrics talk about a woman wearing a white dress riding into a man’s kingdom. In the poem, The Lady of Shalott was wearing a white dress while she floated down to Sir Lancelot's kingdom. Also in the song, it said “Sink me in the river at dawn”. In “The Lady of Shalott”, she got in a boat on a river. In conclusion, you can tell that “If I Die Young” was loosely based off of “The Lady of Shalott. Also some pieces of art were made based off of the story. Some artwork was made based on the descriptive language that the author used. For example, the painting “The Lady of Shalott” by William Waterhouse looks almost exactly like the picture the reader makes in their mind based of of the words that Tennyson uses. One of the lines used In the poem to create a part of the painting is when The Lady of Shalott gets on the boat, it says that there was a water-lily blooming and in the painting there are water-lilies blooming. “She saw the water-lily bloom” (Tennyson). A great amount of art and music was influenced by “The Lady of Shalott”. The author of the poem “The Lady of Shalott” used certain literary techniques such as form, structure, word choice, and symbolism to improve the message of the
The composer gives the plant human characteristics to make the poem sound more alive and mysterious. By saying “Dipped her toe in weeds and so we caught her”, the word “her” is a reference to mother nature and gives the water lily a beautiful feminine quality. Therefor, the audience is able to feel a sense of calmness and peace. Also feel the interconnectedness with nature, spirituality and fantasy and appreciate it. Moreover, in “Nature’s Beauty” the poet applies personification to represent the earth as a queen wearing a long green robe and the rain is throwing the precious stones on its crown and cloths to make shiny and brighter
With imagery she provided a detailed visual of what that looks like, how it sounds and gave readers an understanding of what magic feels like. Finally, characters told the tale with ambiguity so that each and every member of the audience could relate and draw references to the people in their own lives. The poem perfectly unified beauty with basics, showing that true beauty does not always have to be elaborate. True beauty lies within the simplistic details, the character of those involved, the love that is felt and the goodness of mankind, that alone is magic. The theme that all moments are worthy of gratitude no matter how often they occur or how simple they appear is beautifully exemplified in the poem “Common Magic”.
The speaker begins the poem an ethereal tone masking the violent nature of her subject matter. The poem is set in the Elysian Fields, a paradise where the souls of the heroic and virtuous were sent (cite). Through her use of the words “dreamed”, “sweet women”, “blossoms” and
Women As Propriety In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice and The Taming Of the Shrew
...ion of the situation to the Ancient Mariner. Moreover, the way in which the dialogue is presented, makes the structure seems more of a script of a play. The structure of the poem is a key characteristic in displaying the theme, for by telling the story as a personal experience, it helps the reader understand the moral and theme intended as a warning to people.
Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.
The female characters in Molière’s Tartuffe display feminist behaviors years before the feminist movement emerged historically. Many of their actions, words and behaviors are completely out of character for women of their time. Moliere makes a strong statement with this play by presenting female characters that go against convention. The gender inequality when the Enlightenment began was extreme. The women in this play try to fight against this inequality and in the end it is the patriarch of the family that is fooled by Tartuffe yet most of the female characters remain un-fooled throughout the play. Two of the female characters in this play, Doreen and Elmire play significantly different roles in the home. They have different personalities, different household duties and drastically different social standing. As different as these women are, they both show signs of early feminism. To various degrees they fight for want they believe is right. Dorine speaks her mind openly and does not hold anything back. Elmire is sneakier and uses her sexuality to get what she wants.
Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is an important part of his most famed work, The Canterbury Tales. One of the most respected highly analyzed of all of the tales, this particular one is important both for its character development and its prevailing themes. It seamlessly integrates ideas on society at that time with strong literary development. This work stands the test of time both because of its literary qualities and because of what it can teach us about the role of women in late Medieval society.
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‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘The Preservation of Flowers’: two notable poems, two very different styles of writing. This essay will look at their contrasts and similarities, from relevant formal aspects, to the deeper meanings hidden between the lines. We will examine both writers use of rhyme scheme, sound patterning, word choice, figurative language and punctuation. It will also touch a little on the backgrounds of the writers themselves and their inspirations, with the intention of gaining a greater understanding of both texts.
The theme throughout the poetry collection is the emotion of melancholy and the speaker speaking with a wise and philosophical tone. She has also used the repetition of nature and religion-based implications in her poems. Most of the poem titles is named after a specific plant because it fits in the meaning of her entire poem collection. The title of the poems hold symbolism because of the flower language. You can constantly see the cycle of rebirth through the beautiful description of a nonphysical form of a soul and develop into beautiful flowers in her garden. The vivid imagery of the flowers by describing the color and the personification of these living beings. She is also trying to explore the relationship between humans and their god. The poet is a gardener who tends to the flower and she prefer the flowers in her garden over her god, “knowing nothing of the
(24-27) By now the reader might ask him/herself why the Lady of Shalott is stuck in such a dreadful situation and why she does not attempt to do anything about it. There is a constant increase of tension attained by the use of iambic and trochaic tetrameter and an -aaaa bcccb- rhyme scheme repeating in each stanza. This is always interrupted by sudden drops produced by the plosive sound 't' as in 'Camelot';, 'Shalott'; or 'Lancelot'; in lines 5 and 9. The whole scheme could already be seen as an indicator of the omnipresent basic suspense of the poem.
“The Lady of Shalott” is one of many poems that was written by Tennyson. In part one of the poem it begins to tell about a woman who lives alone on a little island called Shalott. The island Shalott is located in the middle of a river. Shalott is within sight of Camelot, a city. The lady’s castle is built with four gray walls and four gray towers. The poem informs us that the lady who lives in the tower has not yet been seen. Farmers who work in the fields early in the morning can only hear her singing. Farmers think of the lady as a fairy because they have never even seen her before (The Lady of Shallot).
“Litany” is a poem inspired by a quote from Jaques Crickillon, this free verse poem describes the feeling of a man to a girl with the use of nouns. This poem has two different tones during its development, a serious tone and a mockery tone, that change from stanza to stanza, for example the first stanza using a metaphor compare the nature with the beauty of the woman, Crickillon express “you are the dew on the morning grass/ and the burning wheel of the sun.”(7-8). Also, the speaker in this poem change the traditional love poem of portray a woman or lover by focused on what the woman is not in the second stanza, in this lines the author is making fun. Nevertheless, the readers shock when the speaker admits that he is he is not like her, in the sixth stanza, the shooting star and paper blowing represent that how unpredictable the men is .
The final element of the Victorian Age that can be seen in Tennyson's poetry is a feeling of isolation that was heavily felt among the Victorians. This sense of isolation, which sparked a desire for social change, was felt for various reasons. The first is that the scientific discoveries mentioned before set younger generations apart from the previous ones. Many people feared the effects of rapid industrialization, as they often didn't fully understand technology, making them feel isolated from the modern world and nostalgic towards simpler, rural life. Another is that the spiritual doubt that came as a result of these scientific advancements also led Victorians, and in particular, Victorian artists, to feel isolated from life, love, and spirituality. This theme can be seen in The Lady of Shalott, along with the themes about women's roles. In the poem, the Lady of Shalott is completely isolated from society that it becomes harmful to her psyche and ultimately chooses death over her life of isolation. The dangers of social isolation shown in the poem emphasize the need for social change that was greatly felt in the Victorian age. It also shows the isolation of the Victorian artist, who must observe life rather than participate in it. For example, the Lady of Shalott must continue to weave her web alone, and as soon as she tries to participate in the world her web is ruined. This can be symbolic of how it was often thought that an artist's work can suffer when he tries to become more than an observer, when he breaks his isolation. A similar theme is expressed in Ulysses, where the speaker, like the Lady of Shalott, wishes to explore the world, but is resigned instead to a life of conformity: marriage, manners, a tedious job. He is r...