Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often through the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.
Which set of lines suggest the text's tension between life and art?


"But in her web she still delights

To weave the mirror's magic sights,"
"For often through the silent nights

A funeral, with plumes and lights"
"...when the moon was overhead,"
"Came two young lovers lately wed;

'I am half sick of shadows,' said

The Lady of Shalott.

Answer 1

The correct answer is

A. "But in her web she still delights."

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Answer 2

The correct answer is A. "But in her web she still delights / To weave the mirror's magic sights." The confined Lady of Shalott mustn't directly look into the world outside. She can only do it through the magic mirror, and she has an irresistible need to weave what she sees in the mirror into her magic web - a genuinely artistic need to interpret the outside world, to endow it with meaning, to understand it, to relive it. In her situation, paradoxically, art is her only contact with the world because she is forbidden to walk outside or even take a direct look through the window.