Everything that surrounded the boat, including the willows, and fields were witnesses of the last song that the lady of Shalott sang as she drifted by. The Lady of Shalott dressed in white, as she lay at the bottom of the boat with her garments moving in the wind, and leaves lightly falling on her as the boat travels through the river at night towards Camelot. This stanza is illustrating an image that is most popular amongst the art that is very commonly available for the poem. What we learn is that sometimes we are bringing hardships upon ourselves, for no reason but our fear of a doubtful unfamiliar future. As the lady lay in the boat she was basically preparing her grave waiting for the curse to befall her. Most of us can relate to this situation, as we feel like eminent inevitable doom awaits those who take big chances to get their “Lancelot”. In this stanza, The lady anticipated the curse to befall her and basically froze her attempts to gain anything out of the risk that she took when she glanced at Camelot. The boat then starts to take her “far away”. At the end of the day, she eventually loosens the chain that is tying the boat to land and lays down in it. Before she actually gets in the boat, she looks down the river at Camelot like a fortuneteller who is in a “trance” once he realizes his own misfortunes that await him. Stanza fifteen continues the Lady of Shalott’s journey outside her normal domain. Sometimes you need that fear of doubt and failure to push you into taking the steps you need to be forced out of your comfort zone and into a place where you can easily reach your Camelot in search of your Lancelot. In the story, the lady loses hope in retaining any normalcy in her life and that pushes her to leave her comfort zone that she has never left before. The stormy weather represents the chaos we create for ourselves and our environment when we let the curse (our doubts) become a reality when it really doesn’t have to. She gets in the boat and carves “The Lady of Shalott” on the front of the boat. The lady of Shalott finally leaves her abode to find a boat floating under a willow tree. There is now a “stormy” wind, the yellow leaves of the forest seem to be disappearing, the river is complaining and heavy rain begins to fall. Stanza fourteen begins with stormy weather, portraying to the reader the circumstances of the situation.
We are now entering the last part of this poem. The broad stream in his banks complaining,
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