I found the process of annotating "The Lady of Shalott" very interesting for two main reasons. The first was seeing how our various groups missed a particular reading of the poem. Many of us understood the poem to highlight the restraint and restrictions placed upon women of the Victorian Era, and their desire to escape it. However, as mentioned both in lecture and in one of the research resources provided, another common reading of the poem is through the eyes of an artist, who questions whether isolation is necessary for their art. I found it interesting that we all contributed different ideas to further one particular reading, but that we did not reach other popular readings in our annotations. The other thing I found interesting was trying to apply the synchronous model to these annotations and interpretations. Often when interpreting a text, I often would look at how its themes are applied to a general context. Applying very specific aspects of a single year like 1857, such as crinolines and how they were used to mock the women's rights movements of the time, provides a tangible understand of the context the text was released in and how readers of that era would interpret it. Although it did not necessarily change my reading fundamentally, it reinforced and strengthened my reading of the poem, and why that reading may have been prevalent in that era.