The Lady of Shalott|summary|analysis
There is also a beautiful small garden around her living place. The lady of Shalott lived a life of seclusion. She did not know the hard realities of life. Her life was unreal. She always became busy in weaving a magical web. Someone told her that if she stops weaving, she will fall prey to a curse. Many boats passed through the river to Camelot but no one had ever seen the lady of Shalott. It seemed as no one knew her.
Only reapers could hear her songs in the morning when they went to the field. No one had seen her with his eyes. Thus she lived a lonely life. She saw outside people through a mirror that hangs before her in her room. She saw everything reflected in the mirror. She saw in the mirror the fields of barley and rye, the river, village men and women and sometimes girls doing their works. She saw in her mirror a group of young girls, a shepherd boy, a servant boy wearing red clothes, a row of knights going from the road but she was happy in weaving the beautiful scenes that she saw in the mirror. But now she had become tired of seeing only their shadows. She wanted to see all these things in real.
One day she saw Sir Lancelot in the fields of barley. He was sitting on his horse. His horse was decorated with beautiful stones. The lady of Shalott was so much impressed after seeing his reflection. Therefore she left weaving her web and looked down to Camelot where Lancelot was going. As soon as, she saw Lancelot the curse came upon her. Her web floats outside and her mirror cracks from side to side.
After it, The wind blows fast, the wood grows pale and it begins to rain. The lady of Shalott leaves her home and finds a boat in the river. She writes her name on it. and lies in the boat. She loses the chain of the boat. People hear her song. she keeps on singing till her death. In this way, she dies singing her last song. After it, people see her dead body lying in the boat and read her name written on it. The people come to know her identity as the lady of Shalott.
