The Lady of Shalott ballad... it has always been something my heart finds its way to most years of my life, normally when im feeling a tad sorry for myself *sigh* (like tonight) I think we all feel like this a little sometimes... Locked in our mundane lives, forced to do what we must, longing for forbidden fruit, and well, as for lancelot, will he ever come? and if he does, he's normally too flippin late!...
p.s. I wish someone would do some amazing lady of shalott shoot, my heart bleeds for someone to make such images from something so beautiful.
p.p.s. follow this link {here} to hear Loreena McKennitt sing the poem. mysteriously magical. (she only sings some verses)
Summary: The Lady of Shalott is a magical being who lives alone on an island upstream from King Arthur's Camelot. Her business is to look at the world outside her castle window in a mirror, and to weave what she sees into a tapestry. She is forbidden by the magic to look at the outside world directly. The farmers who live near her island hear her singing and know who she is, but never see her.
The Lady sees ordinary people, loving couples, and knights in pairs reflected in her mirror. One day, she sees the reflection of Sir Lancelot riding alone. Although she knows that it is forbidden, she looks out the window at him. The mirror shatters, the tapestry flies off on the wind, and the Lady feels the power of her curse.
An autumn storm suddenly arises. The lady leaves her castle, finds a boat, writes her name on it, gets into the boat, sets it adrift, and sings her death song as she drifts down the river to Camelot. The locals find the boat and the body, realize who she is, and are saddened. Lancelot prays that God will have mercy on her soul.
The magical poem is just a click away... {here}
(too long to fit on the old blog)
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