As I sat down and read Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" I was very intrigued on how much more difficult it really is to attempt to define what I think the author is really trying to portray in his writing. I find it difficult to gain a mental picture of the authors ideas because I keep seeing something else, not what the author really meant to portray. I …showed first 75 words of 814 total…

…showed last 75 words of 814 total…and now the curse has now been placed upon her. In the last and final line of the poem he states her blood was frozen slowly, and her eyes were darkened wholly because she has died and this explains the curse that was placed on her after the mirror was broken. She claimed of a curse and the curse got the best of her and ended her life in her lonely dungeon tower. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**