Lady of Shalott Plot

Lady of Shalott

Part I

- On either side of the river there are fields of barley and rye

- The road leads to the castle of Camelot (main town)

- The people on the road look out to the island of Shalott

- Four gray walls and four gray towers on Shalott where Lady lives

- Large boats towed by horses; small boats sail down to Camelot too

- Nobody has seen LOS only reapers have heard her sing in night

Part II

- She weaves all day

- A curse will fall on her if she looks at Camelot

- She doesn't know what this curse is so she just keeps weaving

- She is able to get past the curse by using a mirror

- She sees market girls, unmarried women, monks, shepherds

- Also sees knights but says she does not have her own loyal knight

- She weaves things that she sees

- She sees a funeral and two young lovers in the moonlight

- "I am half sick of shadows" she is sick of seeing the world but not experiencing it

Part III

- SL rode very close to LOS

- Very handsome, brass shin guard armor, shield with image of Knight Templar kneeling to lady

- His bridle is bejeweled (horse headgear); silver bugle

- Very flashy armor

- Looks like the trail from a bearded (beard of light) meteor over Shalott

- Curly black hair under the helmet

- Singing "Tirra Lirra" a very sexual song that gets LOS attention

- She gets up and looks at him in real life and her web floats around and her mirror cracks

- "The curse is come upon me"

Part IV

- Pale yellow trees losing leaves and river making angry sounds and raining

- She found a boat and wrote her name on the front of it

- She released boat from mooring at night and let the stream carry her to Camelot

- She wore a white gown

- She sang as she passed hills and fields and people heard her last song

- She looked at Camelot's towers and died before she got to edge of Camelot

- She floats down the city and people come to the wharf (dock) to see her and read her name

- They all asked "Who is this?"

- Knights of Camelot made the Cross in fear

- Only Sir Lancelot stopped and looked at the lady for a while and said "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace"