http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU_Tn-HxULM

Alfred Lord Tennyson
(Note: As mentioned above, Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem--one in 1832 and one in 1842. This one appears to be the 1842 version.)
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/riley/200/poetry/shalott.html

丁尼生（Tennyson）的“夏洛特女郎”（The Lady of Shalott）

Shalott是個被施了咒的女孩，她孤零零地被關在在凱米洛，亞瑟王城堡附近河心孤島的一座荒蕪的塔樓裏。也不是大家都不認得她，只有如農夫等親近大自然的人才能察覺的的存在，只有柳樹、白楊、微風聽見她的歌聲。

她天天織布，織布機前面安著一個魔鏡，鏡裡照出河岸上的一切。她天天由鏡子看到島外的世界，孤單的將所看見的少女，武士，牧人，情侶，織進她的布裏。

圖片來源：�G http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E392M/cp/WindAmongtheReeds/HostingofSidhePreRaphaelite.htm

\"The Lady of Shalott\" (1886-1905)

by William Holman Hunt (English, 1827-1910)
Inspired by Lord Alfred Tennyson\'s (1809-1892) poem. The Lady can only look on Camelot through a mirror; if she looks directly upon it, she dies - which, of course, she does...

將線條的表現力發揮到了極至，熱烈鮮艷的色彩，舞臺式的構圖和光線的微妙處理‧細節的豐富以及高度寫實的刻畫‧不僅僅是對夏洛特日夜編織這一情節的表現，同時也暗示了糾纏如麻，理不清頭緒的命運\，和故事本身迷宮一樣的吸引力‧而亨特的色彩，始終會帶給你一種過分瑰麗的不真實感．�D

There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.

她不能回頭直接看窗外，因為她聽到一個預言說她一停下織布去賞玩河岸的風光，她一定會受罰。在皓月當空時，她由鏡子看見一對新婚伴侶沿著河岸散步，她悲傷的說“我對這些影子真的覺得厭倦了。”

所有有咒語的故事最後都是要破戒的，夏洛特的命運\注定了要有不經意的一瞥，在晴朗的清晨，Ladyof Shalott在她的magic mirror看見一位King Arthur的騎士蘭斯洛Sir Lancelot的英姿，從此瘋狂的愛上這個一閃而過的影子。

Looking at Lancelot 1894  

by: John William Waterhouse

這一幕，被引誘破戒的夏洛特正彎腰從她的窗戶裏真真切切的看出來．．．她在用生命的代價來看她愛上的影子． 
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look\'d down to Camelot.
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.