Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson is about a woman who is
cursed for an unknown reason, who cannot look at the world. So she constantly
weaves a magic web and looks through a mirror because she cannot look directly
on the world. So while weaving she would look on the people walking and the
other happenings in the reflection of the mirror out her window. One day Sir Lancelot
rode by and she was memorized so she broke her curse looked out the window and
left her tower. She took a boat down the river in search of Camelot. She never arrived
but she had died.
This synopsis was great. I have never read this poem, and
even when reading the actual text I could not bring about as much meaning that
the author of the synopsis was. This creates a translation which is extremely
easy to follow.
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