LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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The Lady of Shalott
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The Eagle
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A Valediction Forbidding Morning
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although they met only twice, Queen Victoria greatly admired the works of Tennyson and she told him that his poem, a requiem for the poet’s friend Henry Hallam, provided her with great comfort.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The Lady of Shalott” demonstrates the ideals of the Victorian Age on how men and women faced division regarding public and private life. The tower in which the lady is a prisoner portrays a domestic environment that allows her to play her feminine role of weaving.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this poem, the Lady of Shalott represents innocence while Lancelot represents experience and her tempter. A Victorian ideal of sexual suppression is portrayed here through the desires of a cursed young woman and the loss of her innocence through the temptations of Sir Lancelot.
Detailed explanation-4: -This poem uses the love story as an excuse to explore a more powerful and crucial theme, the Lady’s choice to set herself free, her refusal to be confined.