Lady of ShalottAlfred, Lord Tennyson

John William Waterhouse,

'I am Half Sick of Shadows' said the Lady

of Shalott

• 1894 John William Waterhouse

• “The Lady of Shalott” Looking at Lancelot

William Maw

Egley,

The Lady of

Shalott

William Holman Hunt, The Lady of

Shalott

The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse

1888, Tate Gallery at London.

Arthur Hughes, The Lady of Shalott (1872-73)

John Atkinson Grimshaw,

The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott

byDante

Gabriel Rossetti

1857

HW: Due 2/8/12

• Check out other illustrations of the poem at http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/loslist.html

• Then read the poem at

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/los1.html

Questions:

What thoughts do you have about the visual depictions of the poem? Which ones seem to best capture what you perceive to be the ideas that Tennyson was hoping to portray in the poem? How so? Which ones seem most removed from the poem? Why?