... "The Lady of Shalott" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A ballad" are pre 1914 poetry. The poets Alfred Tennyson and john Keats wrote many other fine written poems which include "the charge of the light parade", "Morte d"Arthur" written by Tennyson and "to autumn" and "such words" written by John Keats. "The Lady of Shalott" is a romantic poem which twists with a mystical curse ... is imprisoned and as she peers out the window the flowers are the only thing in view. "Silent isle" tells us that the island was still. In the third stanza Tennyson uses rhetorical questions this makes the reade...

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The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson tells of a woman cut off from society and human interactions - the simplicities of life. A feminist reading can be applied to this poem, as Tennyson explores ideas of deprivation, passivity and male dominance through diction, symbolism and characterisation. Male dominance is a prominent ideas ... that The Lady is as isolated and deprived of as an island. "She hath no loyal knight and true, " (line 71). Tennyson now directly tells us of what the Lady is without. – a man – the most important figure in society and she is deprived ... Shallot " (li...

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• Grade Level: High School