Illustrated in the poems The Lady of Shalott and Ulysses by Alfred Lord
Tennyson, The Door by Mir slave Holub and The Girl in Times Square, a
novel by Paulina Simmons.
Change gives us roots; continuity gives us branches letting us stretch
and grow to reach new heights. Living as we know it wouldn’t exist if
change didn’t occur. This ability to continue changing is the only
true security we have. This is illustrated in the poems ‘The Lady of
Shalott” and ‘Ulysses’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘The Door’ by Mir
slave Holub and ‘The Girl in Times Square’, a novel by Paulina
Simmons.
Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ is divided into four parts, following
a strict and consistent meter and rhyme pattern throughout. The Lady
of Shalott is a magical being who lives alone on the island of Shalott
across the river from fast paced Camelot.
The first 2 parts of the poem illustrate a place where everything
stands still. There is a severe lack in movement and The lady of
shallot’s surroundings appears to be idle. This is illustrated through
the bleak and dull the poem provides.. “Four grey walls and four grey
towers..” “And the silent isle embowers” “Slow horses”. The uneventful
and bland introduction serves its purpose by setting the tone and mood
as a boring one, to only make the end excitingly climatic.
The first and most important change that occurs in this text is the
arrival of Sir Lancelot in Shalott. He is represented through the
imagery of flames, sun, sparkle, glitter, stars, gold, silver, shine,
burning light and glow. It was His mere presence that further sickened
The lady of Shalott of only seeing shadows and compelled her to leave
her loom. The fact that the decision to leave was hers alone, even
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...result of choices
among alternate paths offered by the present, but a place that we
create using our minds and will, then in activity. The future is a
place we are creating not going to. The path is to be made not found
and through change she can achieve the most unique and fulfilling
destinations.
It is from the didactive nature of all of these texts we can conclude
that change is inevitable. Change can be positive or negative. With
change comes responsibility, but the price is always worth what we got
for it. The emotive, descriptive language and imagery used in
Tennyson’s poems, symbolism and simplicity of ‘The Door’ and the
mystery of ‘The Girl in Times Square’ all profoundly affect the way I
have viewed change as a necessary element of living, making it so
simple to say that Change by itself is the most powerful agent to
growth and transformation.
“Accept what is, let go of what was and have faith in what will be.” - Anonymous
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