How does the Lady of Shalott poet use language to make the narrative dramatic?
The poem uses repetition for drama, especially the river going down to Camelot, as the poem progresses, as though the poem were floating to Camelot, in which it does in the plot, but the Camelot repetition also adds foreboding because we don’t know the curse that hangs over the Lady of Shalott, which, being a curse, means something bad for her. Also I think the way the rhyme is in couplets alludes to fairy tales (which some think that the lady was) that use simple rhymes, and so making the poem that way suggests innocence and I suppose purity, which the Lady is like as I think being an angel.
