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- - - - Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria in 1850, succeeding William Wordsworth. He held the position until his death in 1892.
      - As Poet Laureate, Tennyson's primary duty was to compose poetry for state occasions and events of national importance. This included writing poems to commemorate royal births, weddings, and deaths, as well as other significant national events.
      - Tennyson's poetry during his tenure often celebrated the British monarchy, the empire, and British national identity.
      - Tennyson's role as Poet Laureate brought him public recognition and acclaim. He became one of the most famous poets of his time, and his poetry was widely read and celebrated.
      - Tennyson's poetry often reflected the values and concerns of Victorian society. His works dealt with themes of love, loss, faith, and social issues, and they resonated with the Victorian sensibility.
- - - - "The Lady of Shalott" by Loreena McKennitt at YouTube
  - - - John William Waterhouse (1888) The Lady of Shalott
        
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    - - William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, c. 1888–1905)
        
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    - - John Atkinson Grimshaw (circa 1875) "The Lady of Shalott"
        
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    - - Elizabeth Siddal (1853) "Lady of Shalott"
        
        Here's an interesting resource on this drawing: The Lady of Shalott: The Women Behind the Art (Marina Nebro, 2015)
        
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    - - Arthur Hughes. The Lady of Shalott. 1873
        
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    - - The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot, John William Waterhouse, 1894
        
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    - - "I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott", John William Waterhouse, 1915
        
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- - - - empowerment
      - isolation
      - artistic pursuits
    - - symbol of the external world
      - catalyst for the Lady's downfall
- - - - repetition
      - enjambment
        
        certainty that becomes uncertainty, continuation that becomes disruption
        
        continued tension
        
        propelling the narrative forward towards the climax
        
        Enjambment is a poetic technique that involves continuing a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line or stanza without a pause or a punctuation mark.
        
        steady flow of the river
      - alliteration
        
        Alliteration is a literary device that involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words within close proximity in a line or phrase.
    - - Sir Lancelot
      - The Lady
      - third-person omniscient narrative voice
    - - rhyme scheme
        
        variations of ABAB
      - quatrains
        
        A quatrain is a type of stanza in poetry that consists of four lines.
      - lyrical ballad
        
        Ballads were originally written to accompany dances, and the refrains were often sung by dancers. They are often narrative in content
    - - the curse
      - the island of Shalott
      - the mirror