“The Lady of Shallot” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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All nonets
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“The Lady of Shallot”
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She can not look outside because if she does it
will kill her.
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The mirror symbolizes the fact that the Lady can
only see the shadows of the world, not the real thing.
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There is the contrast that while beauty nears
the island of Shallot, one at Shallot the wind quivers and the flowers that are
on the island are overlooked by four foreboding towers.
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She contrasts men and women passing Shallot and
also a wedding party and funerals.
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They foreshadow that she will look down on
Camelot to see real people soon and so the curse will come upon her and she
will die.
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Sir Lancelot’s arrival is so momentous because
it causes the Lady to leave her web and go view Lancelot with her own eyes.
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The ironic part of his arrival is that his
beauty and the beauty all around him took on cause death to the Lady.
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In part one, nature is described with vivid
colors and it is majestic but in part four, all the beauty of nature turns to
“pale-yellow” and nothing has the color it had before.
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One possible interpretation to her wearing with
is that in love, she was innocent and had no fault. Another possible
interpretation was that she was pure of the outside world for she had not been
seen or touched by it.
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The connection this poem has with his life is
that while it starts in prosperity, he loses a close friend who seemed unfair
to him much like the death of the Lady.
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This poem is allegorical back to the story of
Adam and Eve and how the first sin caused eventually death. The message he
sends through the Lady is that abandoning yourself and who you are will cause
you to die unappreciated.
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Alliteration: “But who hath seen her
wave her hand” (Line 24)
“All bowsher
from her bower eaves” (Line 73)
“I am half sick
of shadows, said”
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Consonance: “Or is she known in all the
land” (Line 26)
“Only reapers,
reaping early” (Line 28)
“And moving through
a mirror clear” (Line 46)
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A Lady live in a tower and works on her loom
looking into a mirror and only sees the world through that mirror. Sir Lancelot
passes the tower and she looks and the curse come upon her and she is destined
to die soon.
“My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning
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14 Quatrains
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He asked him to do thing like stand and walk
with him.
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A picture of his late wife.
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She didn’t like him the way she liked the other
guys.
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He criticizes that she slept around on him.
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He became upset with her and did not mind that
she was dead.
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He is proud that he did not stoop down to her
level.
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A man shows his guest a picture of his late wife
and hates what she became to him.
“Porphyria’s Lover” – Robert Browning
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“The sullen wind was soon awake” and “I
lightened with heart fit to break”
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They are two lovers who should not be together
as in lines 23-31 where she explains her love for him but she can not lo9ve him
and then he come to the realization he loves her back.
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The men in both poems kill their lover/wife to
keep them to themselves and feel no regret.
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The man strangles her to death in order to keep
her to himself and if she live, he will have to give her up.
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A man waits for his woman to return home during
a storm and realizes that if she live, he will have to give her up so he kills
her.
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