Bagni di Lucca is a picturesque commune nestled within the northern region of Lucca, Italy. It was here that RB and EBB would spend many of their summers in order to rest in the pleasant summer weather. It is also the location of one of my exhibit items which features a picture of the village as it was back in the 19th century.
Where Mary and Lady Jane are at start of chapetr 22 for the ball.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace - Checke out court ceremonies part of this page to get a better of idea of the situation Mary is in at Buckingham.
Annotating “The Lady Shallot” and its associated illustrations this week presented a unique challenge for me in that I struggled to balance and condense all of the many facets of history and culture that surrounded the production of the poem.
This week, our focus was Lord Alfred Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott' which is includes aspects of Arthurian legend. I learned that the poem was in print for 25 years before the 1857 version was published with its illustrations by William Holman Hunt and Daniel Gabriel Rossetti. Our focus today was to make meaning between the originally published poem and its accompanying illustrations. Naturally, my mind gravitated towards understanding women in the cultural moment of the Victorian era; which delegated them to their homes to protect their chastity and sensibilities.
Robert Browning dedicates his poem "A Face" in response to Coventry Patmore's "Angel in The House".
I really enjoyed the process of annotating “The Lady of Shalott” and the two illustrations by different Pre-Raphaelite artists. I was even more so intrigued with the poem in compaison to the other works we have looked at. It was so easy to read and felt like it the analyzing came extremely naturally and allowed for soem great food for thought. I annotated a piece in Part IV that was talking about the blood freezing within the Lady of Shalott and her mournful singing. That piece of the poem held some really vivid and dark imagery that was breathtaking to read.
In performing annotations for both image and text there were a number of things that I found particularly engaging both within the text and the context of “The Lady of Shalott”. Firstly, I will say that I found the text itself to be incredibly engaging. This is the first poem that we have studied in this course and I found the medium to be one that I particularly enjoyed. The way in which Tennyson was able to weave together a narrative while retaining the flow of his poetry was impressive.
This week, we looked at the poem "The Lady of Shalott", and had a chance to annotate parts of it individually, and then together, for the image portion of the text. My group annotated William Holman Hunt's illustration for the text; this image is a wood-engraved framed inset illustration, denoted by the linear border that surrounds it on the page. What I found most fascinating about this image is how it essentially encapsulates the entirety of the poem.
