In Tennyson’s poem The Lady of Shalott, I feel that he has successfull Essay Example

how the mariners are feeling what they are feeling. '..

. slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn... sheet of foam below..

. gleaming river...

hree silent pinnacle of aged snow... ' A feeling of magic is created through the presentation of the island and a constant chilled out feeling is created through the warmth of colours used and the description of enchanted fruit: '...

charmed sunset linger'd low ... the red west ...

yellow down border'd with palm ... pale against that rosy flame.

.. ' Inside the house in 'Mariana' we experience the female's endless wait through how she sees her surroundings.There was a time in the house however when she was not alone 'Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors, old footsteps trod the upper floors, old voices called her from without...

The female's emotions are delivered through speech at the end of the poem where the female resigns herself to death. Speech is the only way in "Mariana" that human emotion is actually mentioned so I feel that the poem mainly relies on the description of her surroundings to help present how she feels. It can be argued that Tennyson successfully integrates the presentation of 'the natural world' with the presentation of human emotion.In the opening stanzas of Part 2 in another of Tennyson's poems, 'The Lady of Shalott' the reader is presented with the Lady's situation '...

here she weaves by day and night ... a curse is on her if she stay to look down to Camelot ..

. all the year ... shadows of the world appear ..

. she hath no loyal knight and true ... 'I am half sick of shadows.

.. ' the reader

knows at this point the Lady is in a tower far away from everyone else and here we learn about how she feels about her situation. In part 5 of the poem the sky breaks out in rain and storm, the Lady of Shalott leaves her tower and finds a boat. The use of the weather implies the severity of the curse and the desperation the Lady is feeling.

The moment the Lady sets her art aside to look upon Lancelot, she is seized with death and in part 4 all the colour from Part 3 gives way to "pale yellow" and "darkened" eyes, and the brilliance of the sunlight is replaced by a "low sky raining. " I think that Tennyson's presentation of the worlds in each of his poems is vital for how he presents the emotions of his characters. He is successful in using them both together and I think that what makes his poems interesting is that he doesn't rely on just one but uses the natural world to help present human emotion.