he poem, and Tennysons use of descriptive language makes the reader feel as if they are right there, witnessing the events first hand.The second part of The Lady of Shallot reveals much more of the outside world than the confines on the tower of Shallot. Tennyson uses Part II to show the Lady of Shallots need for contact with the brilliant world he has built through vivid description. It begins by speaking of the magic web with colors gay which she weaves by night and day (Griffith 333). This small passage is quite important to the rest of the story. By describing this magic web that the Lady of Shallot painstakingly spends all her time on, Tennyson is conveying a message much bigger. In this stanza, the magic web is the Lady of Shallots life. She constantly works on this web and it is all she has ever know. And as she weaves, the Lady of Shallot gazes through a mirror and sees shadows of the world (Griffith 333). And this is exactly what she is witnessing, shadows; since she isnt involved with this outside world, the happenings are never more than imagesnever reality. The Lady of Shallot contently continues to weave the mirrors magic sights (Griffith 333). She then witnesses a funeral, with plumes of light, and even two young lovers lately wed (Griffith 333). By using descriptions as these, Tennyson shows reality to the Lady of Shallot as best as possible (eventhough she is not part of this reality). Through the use of descriptive language to build up the outside world that the Lady of Shallot is isolated from, in the last stanza of Part II, she admits that she is half-sick of shadows (Griffith 333). Though the web is all she has know in her life (and been content with I might add), the Lady of Shallot reveals a desire to experience this brilliant outside world described.In Part III, Tennysons extensive use of descriptive language brings an image to the Lady of Shallot that is so powerful it changes her life. The majorit...
