The Lady Of Shalott By Tennyson Essay

Many people have difficult decisions to make in their lifetime. Choices have to be made in the life of a human being. Whatever choice is made will have an impact on how the rest of the future lays out. Like in the poem The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson, the lady makes one very critical decision that ended up costing her life. There is always two paths to choose from in life. This is probably one of the most important pieces of information that the author communicates in his poem. Tennyson relays three messages in his poem, they are; complicated choices, it’s always the guy’s fault, and to want what we can’t have. In The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, his first message communicated is that life is always going to throw complicated choices towards you. It all depends on which path you decide to take in life, one bad choice could be the last one ever made. Tennyson says in the poem The lady of Shalott, “On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye”(lines 1-2). He says that because it ties in with the rest of the story, when the lady has to make a decision. Whether she wants to stay on her side of the …show more content…
When it comes to women, they are always right. Never try to argue with them for it is like trying to argue with a wall, it just doesn’t work out. Also if anything happens involving a man and a woman, the guy will always get blamed about 90 percent of the time. In the poem, Lancelot is the ultimate blame for the lady’s death. Tennyson says in the poem The Lady of Shalott “She left the web, she left the loom”(Line 109). This is the part when the lady makes a drastic decision and decided to look out the window at lancelot, which her curse forbidden her from doing so. If Lancelot wasn’t so stunningly handsome and a great singer, she would have not looked out the window. Therefore it is lancelot’s “fault”, any woman would agree with this