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Write a Critical Commentary of both La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and The Lady of Shalott. Which poem do you prefer and why?
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Write a Critical Commentary of both La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and The Lady of Shalott. Which poem do you prefer and why? In the nineteenth century, pomes such as 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci, written by Keats, and 'The Lady of Shalott' written by Lord Tennyson, were created in a golden age of manners and formality. Camelot attracted many authors, poets, and painters to a place of great romance and mystique. The theme of Camelot was to show women as either a seductress, or a wronged maiden, waiting for their lovers evermore. Both poems, which I am to compare and discuss, respond to this popular theme In Camelot, and it therefore also became popular amongst artists. The Lady of Shalott, written by Lord Tennyson of that time, is a narrative poem, which tells a story of a woman (the lady of Shalott) who a spell was cast upon. Now, in...
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