Readers are now familiar with two scenes-Camelot and Shalott. Tennyson’s opening stanza is meant to set the tone for the rest of the poem. Shalott is described in much less detail than Camelot-“gazing where the lilies blow, / round an island there below, / the island of Shalott ” Shalott is portrayed as merely a place that is in a traveler’s passing on their journey to Camelot. The poem’s opening stanza begins with vivid images of Camelot and Shalott-Camelot is described as a beautiful landscape with “long fields of barley and rye, / that clothe the wold and meet the sky.” The road through Camelot is surrounded by natural beauty and is traveled on by a continuous flow of people. Tennyson’s Mood Shift in the Intro Stanzas of The Lady of ShalottĪlfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott is a well-known ballad that describes an isolated woman in a tower who is imprisoned due to an unknown curse.
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