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What Is The Diction In Lady Of Shalott By Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Poems, poems, poems. Some are sad, some are angry, some are glad. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poems were very unique pieces that people all over the world can now admire and analyze. His way of bringing life to the poems is amazing and his ways of doing it were well thought out. His poem Lady of Shalott has a formal diction with organized stanzas and a tone. The diction in Lady of Shalott is formal and proper. Tennyson used a very elaborate vocabulary throughout the poem but obviously it was written more than a century ago when the language itself is difficult to understand nowadays. Many of the words were abbreviations such as “glow’d” and “flow’d” that are found in the fourth stanza of the third part. There is little to no dialogue in Lady of

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