![]() ![]() Nora Porteous is also an artist in textiles: she embroiders beautiful tapestries and later becomes a skilled dressmaker. ![]() The Lady of Shalott is the perfect symbol for Nora Porteous: the glamour of European high culture, of Camelot, is unattainable, as is its male apotheosis, the shining knight with his ‘gemmy bridle’ and his ‘coal-black curls’. So, she is an artist but an artist who cannot bear the full glare of the Real, the Real that flashes into her mirror in a vision of masculine splendour: ‘Tirra lirra,’ by the river/Sang Sir Lancelot. The Lady is cursed never to look directly upon reality but may only see reflections in her mirror and then translate those shadows of the world into her weaving. ![]() Plot summary Tirra Lirra by the River quotes from Tennyson’s poem The Lady of Shalott. Critical analysis Of the Novel Tirra lirra by the river By Jessica Anderson. ![]()
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