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Anne of Green Gables

The cover of your Norton Anthology features a detail from William Holman Hunt's painting <i>The Lady of Shalott.</i> To accompany Tennyson's poem, the Anthology also prints an 1857 illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Christina's brother). Many other nineteenth-century artists were moved to represent this poem visually. What is it about the poem itself, in your view, that might explain the many attempts to visualize it?

Anne of Green Gables

Postby Sarah Greaves on Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:26 pm

Honestly any time I read the Lady of Shalot all I can think of is Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. She reads the poem while floating down a river in a beat up boat, with flowers in her hands and an elegant blanket covering her. Since I saw the movie before ever reading the poem, that is the impression i get every time. However I feel that it is befitting of the poem. The poem is highly visual and is constantly bathed in specific colors that give way to anyone's imagination, especially an artist.
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