Art VS. The World

“The Lady of Shalott” is a poem about the battle between life and art. The Lady represents the artist who is naïve in a way to what is going on outside. When she decides to take a closer look at the world she receives a curse which leads to her death. Because she put her art aside, this represents her putting her life aside. I believe this also represents the struggle artist have in balancing art and there social life. They have to almost choose what is more important because they don’t want to mix the two. The fear of learning more about the world put a risk on taking the magic away from art.