er to die. He asks Aurora to release him and let him die so that he could forget the emptiness of his days of long life.The Lady in Tennysons Lady of Shallot is confined to four gray walls, and four gray towers living an almost half-life as she works on her weaving and looks to the outer world not directly, but through a mirror. Tennyson creates a conflict between the inner and outer worlds (Document 1). The lady, who weaves a magic web with colours gay represents the artist or scholar who must isolate himself from reality to produce the best work possible (Document 2). The Lady spends her days alone looking at the world through the mirror where shadows of the world appear. Even though many knights pass by, she is alone for she has no loyal knight and true. In Part I Tennyson juxtaposes the world, with Long fields of barley and or rye, with the island of Shallot, where lilies blow, indicating that the island is an isolated segment of the world. The lady is oblivious to the world around her and hears of the curse set upon her only through whispers from the outside world. In Part III, Lancelots arrival and Shallots doom is foreshadowed by the imagery used to describe the natural world. Everything is excited, ready to erupt. For example, the sum came dazzling thro the leaves,/And flamed upon the brazen greaves and The gemmy bridle glitterd free,/Like to some branch of stars we see/Hung in the golden Galaxy. Lancelot himself is a red-cross knight and wears a silver bugle as he passes through blue unclouded weather. The vibrant detail of the outer world suggests parallels the emotions in Shallots inner world. Soon, however, the readers sees, The broad stream in his banks complaining/Heavily the low sky raining, as well as the ladys path towards self-destruction. As Lancelot passes by, she stops what she is doing and looks directly at the outside world and departs from her inner world into the outer where she meets death (Document 1). In Mari...
