"The Lady of Shalott" by Lord Alfred Tennyson

The Lady of Shalott is an excellent example of Lord Alfred Tennyson's brilliant usage of verbal illusion. The Lady is depicted as a magical being who lives alone on the island of Shalott near the town of Camelot, where she is trapped inside a tower. She is forbidden from leaving the tower or looking directly out of the window at the world, because she has been cursed. No one has ever seen her, but they know she is in the tower because they hear her singing early in the morning. …