Week Four Response - Picturing Poetry in Context

Specifically looking at The Moxon Tennyson (1857) that contained the illustrated image by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, it was quite dark to me. The image looked quite medival while Lancelot finds the Lady’s dead body and stands over her. This particular image helped me with better understanding the innocence that the Lady carries. The symbolism of her purity and femininity is shown here through the setting. The water and swans show her delicance as well as her body being placed so graciously.

Blog Post # 4 - Alessia Dickson

I really enjoyed reading Alfred Tennyson's, Lady of Shalott this week. I have studied it in the past and it continues to be one of my favourite texts from the Victorian era. I was surprised to learn that the actual poem was published twenty-five years before it was actually illustrated by the numerous artists. I do believe that it impacted the overall reception of the poem as by the time it was illustrated, there was a growing middle class in England and an increased demand for domesticated artwork through books.

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