The Lady of Shalott

Vocabulary & Questions 1-25

Vocabulary Review

1 Sojourn2. Grot3. Casement: window part4. Reaper: harvester5. Sheaves: bundles

Vocabulary Review

6. Eddy: stream current7. Abbot: monk8. Brazen: bold or bronze9. Waning: declining10. Seer: visionary or prophet

(Page 784) Part I, Stanza 1 (1)

1. Where does the road lead?

(Page 784) Part I, Stanza 1 (1)

2. What is Shalott?

Part I, Stanza 2 (10)

3. What “imbowers” (note 17) the Lady of Shalott?

Part I, Stanza 3 (19)

4. What do the questions (lines 25-26) about the lady imply?

Part I, Stanza 4 (28)

5. What is the evidence she exists?

Part I, Stanza 4 (28)

6. What do the last lines (35-36) imply?

Part II, Stanza 5 (37)

7. What does the whisper say?

Part II, Stanza 5 (37)

8. What is the actual curse?

Part II, Stanza 6 (46)

9. How does the lady view her world? What are the shadows?

(Page 786) Part II, Stanza 7 (55)

10. What does the lady not have (lines 62-63)?

Part II, Stanza 7 (64)

11. What causes the lady to say, “I am half sick of shadows”?

Part III, Stanza 8 (73)

12. Who appears near the tower?

Part III, Stanza 8 (73)

13. What does the red-cross mean? See note 78.

Part III, Stanza 9 (82)

14. What “moves over still Shalott”?

Part III, Stanza 10 (100)

15. What is Sir Lancelot doing as he flashes in the mirror?

Part III, Stanza 11 (109)

16. What action causes the web to fly and the mirror to crack?

Part III, Stanza 11 (109)

17. What has come upon the lady?

Part IV, Stanza 12 (118)

18. What does she find and write her name on?

Part IV, Stanza 13 (127)

19. What does she do with the boat?

Part IV, Stanza 14 (136)

20. Where is she headed?

Part IV, Stanza 14 (136)

21. What is she doing as she floats down the stream?

(Page 787) Part IV, Stanza 15 (145)

22. What happens as she sings? Be specific (Line 147).

Part IV, Stanza 16 (154)

23. Who finds the lady once she arrives in Camelot?

Part IV, Stanza 17 (163)

24. How did “they” react to finding her body (Line 166)?

Part IV, Stanza 17 (163)

25. How did Sir Lancelot react to finding her body ?

Revisit 6&8

1-3: One sentence each4-8: Two sentences each

6. Compare the lady’s life and weaving to an artist’s life and art

8. Consider two things: the use of color to describe each world and the lady’s choice

Alternative Ending

They crossed themselves, their stars they blest Knight, minstrel, abbot, squire and guest. There lay a parchment on her breast,That puzzled more than all the rest,

The well-fed wits at Camelot. "The web was woven curiously The charm is broken utterly, Draw near and fear not--this is I,

The Lady of Shalott."