Basically, the plot of this poem is of a young woman who is trapped inside a very tall tower. She is all alone and has no one to communicate, for which she is is forced to live within her own world. It is easy to see so far that this poem could resemble from the story of Rapunzel. The Lady of Shalott is told by a whisper that if she was to ever look down upon Camelot she would be cursed. Now, this curse is unknown, but soon enough she appears below to see a couple she becomes jealous. The day or so, she hears the sound of a man named, Lancelot and she left her tower running after him and that is when her mirror had cracked. She new it was the starting of the curse. She then had gotten into a boat and gently floated down the river where she died was freezing to death. She was soon found by knights at Camelot and were all afraid of her except for Lancelot who found her face and grace to be lovely.
The Lady of Shalott represented a person who was trapped in her own world. When she was set free her and escaped her own world, it was almost as if she couldn't handle the "outside" world. Which would be the normal world for us, but because she had been trapped it was a big change. I think that the mirror breaking was her consequence from breaking "the rules". Where as, the whisper had told her not to leave the tower and she disobeyed it so she was being punished. This reminds me of her rebelling against her own good. She went against what she was used to and it ended up with her dying in the river on a boat she had found.
I can relate this to my own life because I feel that when I listen to my own music all by myself in my room, and I am not being disturbed by anyone I can let my mind be free. I feel like there are no troubles in "my own world", but when I am to take out my earphones and come back to reality everything else just falls apart. As if I am being sucked into a world i'd rather not associate with.
I believe that this image really represents The Lady of Shalott because you can tell by the expression on her face, she is in some sort of pain. That pain can be symbolized as fear or rebelling or knowing her own death which is the consequences she must face for rebelling. I really like the colors in this image, I feel that it sets a tone of depressed, sad, and a sort of tragedy. Also, in her face it almost looks as if she is searching for something with her eyes close, as if she can feel what she wants but cannot find it.
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