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The lady of Shallot by John Atkinson Grimshaw 

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The lady of Shallot by John Atkinson Grimshaw 

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In this painting the artist depicts a dead woman in a boat, peacefully floating in the river.

It seems to me like there is a similarity between Stevenson's poem and this painting because in both art works I perceive death as a peaceful and natural state.

Marina Soria

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" The Lady of Shalott" is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by the 13th-century short prose text Donna di Scalotta, it tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot. One of the poet's best-known works, its vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism inspired many painters, especially the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers.

Like his other early poems - " Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere" and " Sir Galahad" - the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources. Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem, one published in 1833, of 20 stanzas, the other in 1842, of 19 stanzas. The revised version has a significantly different ending, designed to match Victorian morals regarding gender norms and the act of suicide.

The poem is loosely based on the Arthurian legend of Elaine of Astolat, as recounted in a 13th-century Italian novellina titled La Damigella di Scalot, or Donna di Scalotta (No. LXXXII in the collection Il Novellino: Le ciento novelle antike); the earlier version is closer to the source material than the latter. Tennyson focused on the Lady's "isolation in the tower and her decision to participate in the living world, two subjects not even mentioned in Donna di Scalotta."

The first four stanzas of the 1842 poem describe a pastoral setting. The Lady of Shalott lives in an island castle in a river which flows to Camelot, but the local farmers know little about her.

And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers, "'Tis the fairy
Lady of Shalott."

Stanzas five to eight describe the lady's life. She suffers from a mysterious curse and must continually weave images on her loom without ever looking directly out at the world. Instead, she looks into a mirror, which reflects the busy road and the people of Camelot who pass by her island.

She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.

The reflected images are described as "shadows of the world", a metaphor that makes it clear they are a poor substitute for seeing directly ("I am half-sick of shadows").

Stanzas nine to twelve describe "bold Sir Lancelot" as he rides by and is seen by the lady.

All in the blue unclouded weather
Thick-jewell'd shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather
Burn'd like one burning flame together,
As he rode down to Camelot.

The remaining seven stanzas describe the effect on the lady of seeing Lancelot; she stops weaving and looks out of her window toward Camelot, bringing about the curse.

Out flew the web and floated wide-
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.

She leaves her tower, finds a boat upon which she writes her name, and floats down the river to Camelot. She dies before arriving at the palace. Among the knights and ladies who see her is Lancelot, who thinks she is lovely.

"Who is this? And what is here?"
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the Knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott."

According to scholar Anne Zanzucchi, "in a more general sense, it is fair to say that the pre-Raphaelite fascination with Arthuriana is traceable to Tennyson's work". One of Tennyson's biographers found the Arthurian material is "Introduced as a valid setting for the study of the artist and the dangers of personal isolation".

Feminist critics see the poem as concerned with issues of women's sexuality and their place in the Victorian world. Critics argue that "The Lady of Shalott" centres on the temptation of sexuality and her innocence preserved by death. Christine Poulson discusses a feminist viewpoint and suggests: "the Lady of Shalott's escape from her tower as an act of defiance, a symbol of female empowerment." Based on Poulson's view, escaping from the tower allows for the Lady of Shalott to emotionally break free and come into terms with female sexuality.

The depiction of death has also been interpreted as sleep. Poulson says that sleep has a connotation of physical abandonment and vulnerability, which can either suggest sexual fulfillment or be a metaphor for virginity. Fairy tales, such as Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, have traditionally depended upon this association. So, as related to the Lady of Shalott, Poulson says: "for in death [she] has become a Sleeping Beauty who can never be wakened, symbols of perfect feminine passivity."

Critics such as Hatfield have suggested that "The Lady of Shalott" is a representation of how Tennyson viewed society; the distance at which other people are in the lady's eyes is symbolic of the distance he feels from society. The fact that she sees them only reflected through a mirror signifies the way in which Shalott and Tennyson see the world-in a filtered sense. This distance is therefore linked to the artistic licence Tennyson often wrote about.[citation needed ]

Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB). In 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt made a list of "Immortals", artistic heroes whom they admired, especially from literature, some of whose work would form subjects for PRB paintings, notably including Keats and Tennyson. "The Lady of Shalott" was particularly popular with the Brotherhood, which shared Tennyson's interest in Arthuriana; several of the Brotherhood made paintings based on episodes from the poem. Two aspects, in particular, of "The Lady of Shalott" intrigued these artists: the idea of the lady trapped in her tower and the dying girl floating down the river towards Camelot.

In Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Tennyson's works, illustrated by Hunt and Rossetti, Hunt depicted the moment when the Lady turns to see Lancelot. In the background of the illustration, Hunt juxtaposes the window facing Lancelot with a painting of Christ's crucifixion. According to Christine Poulson, the Crucifixion is the archetype of self-sacrifice and further emphasises the ideal that the Lady of Shalott fails to represent. Poulson also considers this representation of the subject in the context of changing women's roles in the 1880s and 1890s, suggesting that it served as a warning of imminent death to women who stepped from their restricted roles and explored their desires. Rossetti depicted Lancelot's contemplation of the Lady's "lovely face". Neither illustration pleased Tennyson, who took Hunt to task for depicting the Lady caught in the threads of her tapestry, something which is not described in the poem. Hunt explained that he wanted to sum up the whole poem in a single image, and that the entrapment by the threads suggested her "weird fate". The scene fascinated Hunt, who returned to the composition at points throughout his life and finally painted a large scale version shortly before his death. He required assistants, as he was too frail to complete it himself. This deeply conceived evocation of the Lady, ensnared within the perfect rounds of her woven reality, is an apt illustration of the mythology of the weaving arts. This work is now in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.

John William Waterhouse painted three episodes from the poem. In 1888, he painted the Lady setting out for Camelot in her boat; this work is now in the Tate Gallery. In 1894, Waterhouse painted the Lady at the climactic moment when she turns to look at Lancelot in the window in The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot; this work is now in Leeds Art Gallery. Poulson argues that Waterhouse's impressionistic painting style in his 1894 rendering of The Lady of Shalott evokes a "sense of vitality and urgency". In 1915, Waterhouse painted I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott, as she sits wistfully before her loom; this work is now in the Art Gallery of Ontario.

"The Lady of Shalot" has been adapted in various ways in later works of literature. Agatha Christie used the line "The mirror crack'd from side to side" as the title of her 1962 novel in which the poem itself plays a large part in the plot. Patricia A. McKillip used an adaptation of the poem as a primary theme of her novel The Tower at Stony Wood (2000). Lisa Ann Sandell's novel Song of the Sparrow (2007) is a retelling of the story. Tennyson's poem is also used for narration and as a narrative device in Kaori Yuki's "Camelot Garden" (2008). In Jasper Fforde's novel One of our Thursdays Is Missing (2011), the Lady of Shalott appears as a character, possessing a mirror that allows characters in the Book World to see into the real world ("the Outland").

Quotes from the poem have been included in many novels, including Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Eric Frank Russell's Next of Kin (1959), Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997), and Meg Cabot's Avalon High (2005). In some novels, the poem is also referenced within the plot by characters, as in Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate (1949), Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase (1965), Diana Wynne Jones' (1993), Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003), and Jilly Cooper's Wicked! (2006).

Its various lines have been turned into book titles by authors such as Jessica Anderson (Tirra Lirra by the River, 1978), Sharyn McCrumb ( Sick of Shadows, 1984), Robin Klein ( All in the Blue Unclouded Weather, 1991), and Alan Bradley ( I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, 2011). It also inspired the title of Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Gentleman of Shalott" (1946).

The first musical setting of the poem was probably a work for mezzo-soprano soloist, chorus and orchestra by the English composer Cyril Rootham, composed in 1909-1910. The only known performance of Rootham's op 33 The Lady of Shalott was given in the School Hall at Eton College on 18 September 1999, with the Broadheath Singers and the Windsor Sinfonia conducted by Robert Tucker. In 1957-1958, Arthur Bliss (once a pupil of Cyril Rootham) composed a 40-minute ballet suite titled The Lady of Shalott.

French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote a piece for solo piano La dame de Shalotte in 1917 based on Tennyson's poem. In 1946, Phyllis Tate composed a setting of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, written for the 10th anniversary of the BBC Third Programme. Danish composer Bent Sørensen created a piece for viola solo, based on Waterhouse's painting The Lady of Shalott.

Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt adapted the poem to music, and featured it on her 1991 album . Dutch gothic metal band Autumn referred to "The Lady of Shalott" in their songs "Who Has Seen Her Wave Her Hand", "Mirrors Magic Sights", "When Lust Evokes the Curse", and "Floating Towards Distress" from their 2002 album When Lust Evokes the Curse, each song retelling parts of the story from the poem. The song titled "Shalott" on Emilie Autumn's 2006 album tells the poem from her own perspective. The Band Perry's country music video " If I Die Young" makes clear visual references to "The Lady of Shalott": lead vocalist Kimberly Perry holds a book of poems by Tennyson as she lies in a boat, floating down a river like the Lady of Shalott (the boat in the Perry video is similar to some illustrations of the poem, such as the image by W. E. F. Britten).

The poem has been furthermore referred to or quoted in various ways in modern music. For instance, folk duo the Indigo Girls refer to the Lady of Shalott in "Left Me a Fool" from their 1987 album Strange Fire and Swedish pop band The Cardigans quotes it "Give Me Your Eyes", a bonus track on Super Extra Gravity. British musician and singer Richard Thompson took the title for his 1994 album Mirror Blue from the poem.

In the 1985 television adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley ( Megan Follows) reads various stanzas of the poem and acts out the Lady of Shalott's tragic end as she floats down the river; lines from Tennyson's " Lancelot and Elaine" are also referred to. The poem forms the backbone of voice-over for the episode "Tracie's Story" (2012) of . In My Mother and Other Strangers (2016), Tennyson's poem plays an important role.

The poem has been also quoted in whole or in part within other television films and series. Examples of that include the Upstairs, Downstairs episode "The Understudy" (1975) and the episode "Girl" (2013), as well as the 1983 BBC film An Englishman Abroad, the episode "Tracey's Story" in the 2010 BBC series , and the first episode of the 1995 BBC production of The Buccaneers.

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" The Lady of Shalott" is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by the 13th-century short prose text Donna di Scalotta , it tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot.

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The Wandering Jew: "Whom the gods love die young" by Evelyn De Morgan (1855 - 1919)

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The Wandering Jew: "Whom the gods love die young" by Evelyn De Morgan (1855 - 1919)

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In this painting by the female artist Evelyn De Morgan, death is presented as a moment of rest as opposed to a moment of mourning and suffering. This idea is quite similar to the one present in Stevenson's poem, "Underwoods" in which death is a positive state.
The portrait has bright colours and the dead woman is covered in a white cloth. There is also a white dove watching her creating a sort of peaceful feeling and in connection with nature. The window is open and letting light and fresh air inside the room.

Roberta Giménez

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“The Wedding Dress (1911) by Frederick William Ellwell.

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“The Wedding Dress (1911) by Frederick William Ellwell.

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Hello everybody!

I’ve chosen the painting “The Wedding Dress” by Frederick William Elwell (1991)

In the picture we can see a woman mourning the loss of her husband or fiancé. She is lying on the floor next to the wedding dress, maybe crying and remembering moments that cannot be lived again. She is wearing dark clothes out of respect for her love.

In contrast with Stevenson’s poem, the painting represents the dark and painful side of death and the suffering of the person who loses someone while the poem portrays death as something positive, eternal rest after life for the person who dies.

Source:http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/storydetail.php?irn=637

Rebeca Cheuque

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Hi teacher and mates,
Here's my comment to this forum.
I chose  "Time, Death and Judgement" by George Frederic Watts to connect to the poem. The main topic of the painting is represented with the three figures that can be observed: Time carries the scythe but it is not a horrid figure. Death is a woman with an expression of sorrow carrying flowers and Judgement supporting both at the back. Similar to the poem is that any dead body is present in the scene but mentioned or represented -the poem or the painting. In the poem the author is going to die but he is glad. The picture represents a moment of peace since the man with scythe does not seem to be violent or cruel and the poem reflects that, too. It mentions that the author is in the place where he wants to stay. Everything seems to happen as a natural process of someone at the end of his life - for example a hunter or a sailor who has finished his working life and wants to die in peace. The flowers can be the things that the person has gained during life and the justice represents the balance of what he has done.

Cheers,
Griselda Arfenoni.

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Hello everybody! Here is my contribution.
This work of art shows how the girl is already dead in the river. The artist shows how she drowned and aroused, great admiration from the audience Victoriano. On the other hand the author captures death as a nature of the person. I can find the similarity  with Stevenson because he also mentions  death in his poem as a part of a person's life.

Rueda Mercedes.

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The messenger (1884–5) by George Frederic Watts   

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The messenger (1884–5) by George Frederic Watts   

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Hello Celes and mates!

The main topic of the painting is to highlight the similarities between life and death. The painter transcends the beauty of every aspect of life in his series of compositions.
Watt's paintings seem to perceive death as Stevenson does. Something that comes as natural as possible, and harmless. The messenger is there to relieve the old man's suffering. An infant is laying, peacefully, on her arms representing that every human is fragile, and death determines the fate of the journey.
It is possible to do a reference to  Stevenson's stanza "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home". The old man is surrounded by his art, which it has no more avail. He seems to lay beside his most precious things.
Regards,
Martínez Lara

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Hello Celeste and mates. Here is my contribution.

I have read the poem  The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson. The picture of the poem is a delight to my eyes. You can see throughout the following link:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/waterhouse-the-lady-of-shalott-n01543

Death is a theme  presented in both poems which are The Lady of Shalott and Stevenson s poem. On the  one hand, I may say that the picture reflects a woman whose expressions may be described under the concept of despair, worry, desolation. There is a way  to lose life. All seems lonely and distressing. Death is tortuous because within the poem, words such as drifting and her last song denote sadness.

On the other hand, the poem by Stevenson reflects how gladly to live and die.

I consider that death is dealt differently in both the picture and the poem. There is a difference on how people may feel in life until death.

Death is well represented in both pieces of art. I can interpret that tears over graves  are the words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Victorian treatment of death and dying has even been characterized as a cult of death. Icons, expressions and rituals are present to express grief and honor around death.

Regards

Delicia Fernández Medina

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"The Angel of Death" (1851) by Horace Vernet (1789–1863)

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"The Angel of Death" (1851) by Horace Vernet (1789–1863)

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Hello Celes and mates!

In this painting by Horace Vernet, we can see he portrays death as an obscure event, when a person leaves this earthly life and goes to some other place. It is also visible how the woman is pointing upwards, referring to the feeling of leaving her body and going somewhere else, is it Heaven? Is it Hell? We really cannot tell.
So, while Stevenson's poem reflects about death being a relieving and natural moment, Vernet shows the other side which we could say is the most common among several societies. This has to do with the sadness of losing a loved one. This is represented by the man's posture and facial expression. In my opinion, it describes our fear of death and the feeling of emptiness one is afraid of experimenting.

Stevenson says "Here he lies where he longed to be." I realized this line is extremely powerful, and, related to this painting, we can see that the man is miserable after seeing his loved one die. We can say, then, that he lies where he longed to be, next to her, but in a way he could have never pictured before.

Regards,
Lucila Olveira

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Hello Celes and mates! Here is my contribution:
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/homer-watson/key-works/the-death-of-elaine

The painting shows Elaine’s body being carried down the Thames to Arthur’s castle, Camelot. The “Caronte” figure can be seen transporting the soul to the other world. Though it is related to Greek mythology, this symbol is present in many Victorian works of art.

Elaine holds a letter that will reveal to Lancelot the consequences of his indifference toward her. Love and Death themes are also present. Elaine’s chastity and her tragic death due to an unreturned love (she died of sadness from a broken heart); perfectly embodied Victorian values.

I think that, in spite of being a tragic death in the case of the painting, I can see and relate a positive vision as in Stevenson’s poem. The bright light coming down Elaine’s face and body contrasted with the clouds and the looming castle. She died of love and she seems to be in peace, she is on her final journey to that world where her love will be endless.

Regards,

Silvina Román

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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"The last Goodbye" Photography as a kind of Art.

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"The last Goodbye" Photography as a kind of Art.

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The following picture is an example of a photograph taken during the Victorian period. People during this period believed that the best way of memorializing the dead was by taking a postmortem photo. The trend became known as “memento mori”.  In the photo we can see a sorrowful father with his little daughter. This tradition was introduced by Louis Daguerre in 1839.

Personally, I can't find a similarity between this photo and Stevenson´s poem since in the verse, death was described as a rest after a long journey. Besides, the passage from the life to death was narrated as comforting. However, the photograph represents death a moment of desolation and unhappiness.

Warm regards

Natali Perez

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The Artist Attending the Mourning of a Young Girl (1847)

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The Artist Attending the Mourning of a Young Girl (1847)

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Hello Celes and classmates!

I would like to share with you another painting by Sir John Everett Millais, from whom another remarkable painting has already been presented by Rocío. This composition stands for a personal episode of Millain´s where he was asked to draw the portrait of a girl in her coffin before the burial ceremony. Then when he got home he was so emotional that he felt compelled to immortalize the exact moment showing him being asked to draw the said portrait.

Now as regarding the question that convene us, I could only dissertate that Stevenson´s rhymes are not materialized in the scene, where the projection of a death being positive and a natural part of life doesn’t find any room in the countenances of the painting´s characters.

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-the-artist-attending-the-mourning-of-a-young-girl-t07135

Cheers!

Matias Pacheco

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The following photo is called "Dressed to die"
From my point of view, I can observe an important similarity between the picture and Stevenson’s poem since both have the same thought about the death’s feeling.
On the one hand, thanks to The Victorian Queen who turned death into an art form in which families could mourn for a long time depending on who died and they had to dress for the special occasion and take a photo to remember the deceased as natural as possible. Therefore, the deceased’s memory was considered an art object that his/her family could have for a long time.
On the other hand, Stevenson wants to convey through his poem a positive way of feeling or seeing death because he considered death as a natural part of the life, for example when he says “Glad did I live and gladly die”. In this case, he shows us death as a rest at the end of life.
Hugs
Romina Valdebenito

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Hello Celes and classmates!This photo is called: Mourning during the Victorian Era.

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Hello Celes and classmates!This photo is called: Mourning during the Victorian Era.

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In the next photo, we can see four women mourning the death of a loved one. They seem very sad and distressed, dressed in black and making a record of that moment so that it is made public. The similarity that I found between this photograph and Stevenson's thought regarding death is that they both wanted to make it public since they saw death as something natural in life. On the other hand, the difference that I can see is that for Stevenson death was something natural and that we should not be afraid of it since it could be a passage to a place full of peace where we could finally rest, while the women in the photo cry disconsolately unable to find an explanation for what happened.

Rojas Milena

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MOURNING DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA- LITERATURA II- FORO 1

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The Lament of Icarus by Herbert Draper (1898)

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The Lament of Icarus by Herbert Draper (1898)

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This painting of the Victorian era illustrated the theme of love and death.

The British audience was fascinated by beautiful, conflicting and a plenty of symbolism of the Victorian paintings. In this case, Draper was focused on ancient Greek mythological subjects. Icarus was given wings of wax, so he could escape from the Island of Crete.  However, he died when his wings of wax were melted by flying near to the sun.

Draper shows a peaceful death of Icarus and the sorrowing nymphs, surrounded at his side. This is a representation of an epic failure.

One of the similarities that I can observe between this picture and Stevenson’s poem is the great ability that both artists had to transmit the beautifulness of death. In the painting, Draper shows a natural attitude of the different characters towards the situations that it is observed.

Cheers and Hugs
Lorena Flores

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Sophie Gengembre Anderson: Elaine of Astolat

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Sophie Gengembre Anderson: Elaine of Astolat

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She is a lady from the castle of Astolat who dies of her unrequited love for Sir Lancelot.
We can see this picture about a woman who died because of love. She was locked in a tower with a curse and she decided to risk her life for love. Eventually she died. This picture shows how people can do because of love. She did not hesitate to look for what she wanted. She was not afraid of knowing that she could face death. We can think that she knew that death was part of life. Similiar with Stevenson that showed death in a positive form. In this panting, the woman, she risked everything, death, so as not to continue locked up.

Regards,
Luciana Medina

Source:
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/02/sophie-gengembre-anderson-elaine-of-astolat/

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Hello everyone!
This is my contribution.  The painting I've chosen is called "the Lady of Shalott" by Walter Crane. I liked it because I think that there are similirities as well as differences.
In this painting we can see a woman, lying on a boat in a river. She seems to be very  peaceful which I think it's a similarity with Stevenson's poem "glad did I live and gladly die". I think that the main aspect of this poem is that it  reflects death as a natural part of life, not as something to be afraid of or as something negative. And I think that this painting has the same effect on the viewer. Death is considered to be the "final rest" which I believe is the message of both: the poem and the painting.
The obvious differences are that in the poem the protagonist is a man, in the painting the protagonist is a woman;  the poem mentions the sea and in the painting we can se a river; the poem refers to the night  ("under the wide and starry sky")  and by the colours of the painting it seems to be sunrise.

source: https://fineartamerica.com/
Regards
Silvia Paz

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The Lady of Shalott is a painting by Walter Crane which was uploaded on October 13th, 2011. The painting may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.

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Hello Celeste and classmates!, I will share my contribution to this activity,  I chose this piece of art of the Victorian era. Where there is a family with a dead child, who is like he or she was sleeping on the floor.  The similarities I can read and observe between the poem and the piece of art are: death is  part of life and during this era was very common to take photos to dead people. Besides, the poem reflects that disease was something that could happen anytime anywhere. Stevenson says that : he would like there was a message when he dies.  People seem to receive the news of death with serenity  believing that people is resting in peace.
Jacqueline Paredes
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581

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Aurora Triumphans by Evelyn de Morgan (1877-78)

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Aurora Triumphans by Evelyn de Morgan (1877-78)

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Hello Celes and mates!!
In this painting, I can see a theme of Victorian Era, duality between night/aurora, darkness/light, death/life, as a transitional state, a movement towards a new state. There is a dark figure that represents the darkness (the last minute) and a naked and illuminated aurora that is the spirit after death. The angels with trumpets annunciate this passage. I think that death is presented in a similar meaning as in Stevenson´s poem, as a natural way to go to another dimension, in a positive form.
Adriana Puente

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Ana Paula Pino
George Watts, the author ot the painting shown below "Love and Death" said about his own creation: :‘the progress of the inevitable but not terrible Death, who partially but not completely overshadows Love." I believe this idea, seen in the picture as how death walks past love  despite its intentions to stop it, does not kill love, love survives death.  This romantic idea of death as well as a path, as an innevitable part of life that one might even seek at some point.  In the poem Stevenson mentions:  "Glad did I live and gladly die " and in the painting death is seen as inevitable but not as a terrible or even terryfing event in life.  Love is not scared buy its presence in the painting, Death is seen just walking by withouth causing pain or fear.  It is not wearing dreadful clothes, it does not look deamon like.  Yet, it must perform its duty.
I believe that both pieces depict the feelings of the era correctly, a time when death was romanticised as ending all earthly troubles.

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Tate Museum London. (s. f.). www.tate.org.ok. Recuperado 11 de marzo de 2021, de https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/watts-love-and-death-n01645

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Hello everyone! This is my contribution!

I have chosen this piece of art called " The Brigde of Sighs"  by Thomas Hood.

This artwork shows us the suicide of a woman, Hood captures this woman jumping off the brigde. She wanted to find peace, since Victorian society discriminated ,marginalized and destined her for poverty for being a prostitue. I think that death in this case is seen a positive aspect of this tragedy, as Stevenson's poem show us, since she felt that her destiny and the life she had was worse than death, consequently, death would be a respite for her, in some way, a new life with stability.I think this artwork represents how death was experienced in that era, because she found peace and she looked for a better destiny.
Source:  http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/prb/hikim12.html

Hugs,
Naiara Moyano

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The Angel of Death I by Evelyn de Morgan

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The Angel of Death I by Evelyn de Morgan

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Hello Celes and mates, here it is my contribution:

Through this beautiful piece of art, the author demonstrates his “spiritualist belief that death is to be welcomed and not feared” (demorgan.org.uk). Therefore, the theme of this painting is very similar to the one of Stevenson’s “Underwoods” poems, in which he expresses that death is something positive and natural since it is like a rest at the end of our life.

I believe that Evelyn’s master piece represents how death was experienced in that historical period, since the Victorian society had an obsession with death. There were rules and regulations regarding death, burials and mourning. People also began planning their burials while they were young, so dying was an open and ongoing conversation.

In her art work, Evelyn depicts the Angel of Death as a beautiful and benign figure. “The young woman appears to have had a hard life – signified by the arid landscape behind her. In contrast, the way forward is illustrated with a fertile landscape and spring flowers, demonstrating Evelyn’s view that the path of the Angel of Death is not to be feared” (demorgan.org.uk).

Corral Johana.

Sources:

https://www.demorgan.org.uk/collection/the-angel-of-death-i/#:~:text=Evelyn%20depicts%20the%20Angel%20of,the%20arid%20landscape%20behind%20her

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-grief/201812/death-and-mourning-practices-in-the-victorian-age

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Hello Celes and classmates!
The piece of art that I've chosen is called "Ofelia" by Millais. It was made in the Victorian Era.
Millais represented Ofelia's death in Hamlet. In the play, Ofelia died after she climbed a tree to look for flowers but the branch broke down and she fell down into the river where she sank down because of her heavy custom.
In the picture we can see that the place where it occurs is peaceful and beautiful, she is rounded of nature and colourful flowers. I think that it is a positive view of a tragedy, of death.
Hugs.
Rocio.

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I chose the painting "Chatterton" by Henry Wallis. It illustrates the suicide of the poet Thomas Chatterton. I believe that in this picture the author wanted to show the tragedy and how a young and beautiful man decided to kill himself. He took this decision because he didn't feel recognized by the society of that moment.
For this reason, I can observe differences between the picture and Stevenson's poem. In the piece of art Wallis ' intention was criticize the society by painting the death of a boy who took arsenic. In this way the picture creates a sensation of pain, melancholy and sadness. Unlike, what the poem shows death as a positive and natural part of life.
For both,  the poem and the painting represent how death is experienced in this period due to the theme is death. And in the Victorian Era people had fascination with it and treated it with importance. On one hand, Stevenson shows the positive part and on the other hand, Wallis the negative one.
Erica Garcia

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The dance of death, the nursery. T. Rowlandson, 1816

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The dance of death, the nursery. T. Rowlandson, 1816

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The reviewer of this article tell us about a celebration of death, very common in the Victorian period.

Stevenson thinks that death is a positive and natural part of life and it could be easily shown through this picture. He says that it's something no to be terrified. Also, for this author the physical description is key in his novels, the same way that the pictures in the Victorian era are painted in detail.

Sabrina Buchara

Source: https://www.family-tree.co.uk/how-to-guides/how-our-victorian-ancestors-dealt-with-death/

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Hello everyone. Here is my contribution.
This picture called “Death and the Maiden” painted by (Marianne Stokes, 1900) reflects what Death meant for those who lived in the Victorian Times. Death was always lying in wait for the human´s life and not only did it represent the horror, the suffering, the dark side of life but also it was the shocking, the immorality, the misshapen things. This picture is different from what Stevenson states in his poem because he considers death a part life, but in this piece of art, the woman on the bed is frightened cause death is at her side and it looks as if she doesn´t want to go that way. In this piece of art death has taken a firm grasp on the woman’s tresses, and she locks her hands together in prayer, knowing well the fate that awaits her. It seems that she wants to survive in that moralistic and pedantic socienty.
Hugs,
Cecilia Zabala.

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Dear students!                       You are an art critic today!!!          Find a piece of art corresponding to the Victorian era in which the author illustrates the theme of death and explain the similarities or differences you can observe between this picture and Stevenson´s poem.                 Do they represent how death is experienced in this historical period?                                Quote the borrowed ideas properly.                    

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Dear students!                       You are an art critic today!!!          Find a piece of art corresponding to the Victorian era in which the author illustrates the theme of death and explain the similarities or differences you can observe between this picture and Stevenson´s poem.                 Do they represent how death is experienced in this historical period?                                Quote the borrowed ideas properly.                    