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which poem do the following lines come from?

A pure and virtuous maiden cursed to fall in love and die half-mad for the want

of it.

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  • Malar
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    Googling I came up with the following;;

    THE LADY OF SHALOTT AND THE AUDIO-VISUAL IMAGINATION

    MARGARITA CARRETERO GONZÁLEZUniversidad de Granada

    I decided that it was time to open the boxand watch the first episode, “Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things”. I could hardly believe my ears when, in the last minute of the film, DS Hathaway, Lewis’sextremely intelligent and learned assistant, quoted from Tennyson’s poem: “Outflew the web and floated wide”. Lewis recognises the line but wonders what brought it to Hathaways’s mind. “A pure and virtuous maiden cursed to fall inlove and die half-mad for the want of it” is Hathaway’s reply, thus explaining thereasons that led the murderer in this episode to kill her lover and, years later,immolate herself.

  • 9 years ago

    I'm sure it's not from Shakespeare. It doesn't sound like it actually is from a poem to me... it sounds more like an analysis of a character - maybe Ophelia? The Lady of Shalott? Even maybe Bertha Rochester or Miss Havisham? Not certain... it just somehow doesn't sound like a poetic quote to me.

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