the poem doesn't exactly say who cursed the lady of shalott but it does say:
'She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.'
so basically i think that some whispers said it to her either in her head or whatever but it was whispers
Nobody knows how she got cursed as the poet included in his poem ("She Knows not what the curse may be") She Died Because If She Looked Out the window her curse will come upon her , and she saw a knight named Sir Lancelot , who lived in Camelot , which she thought was handsome and decided to look out and the mirror started to crack from side to side, ("The curse is upon me cried" The Lady of Shallot,
Sir lancelot
The curse fall upon you when you enter the place where it is or if any of your loved ones have the curse on them.
After she looked directly through the window and the curse had fallen on her, the Lady of Shalott in the island came down to the river and lay down on the boat in her trance at the closing of the day. She floated down to Camelot on her final journey through the noises of the night, leaves lightly falling upon her all the way. When the dead and still Lady of Shalott reached and floated by under the tower and balcony and between the high houses of Camelot, the sound of royal midnight revelry died in the nearby lighted palace, and seeing the drifting body, they all crossed themselves for fear. Therefore it can be logically assumed that it was during the midnight that the gone Lady of Shalott reached Camelot.
a stanza in a ballad is a verse and an example would be: (this is from the lady of shalott): 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 looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide, The mirror cracked from side to side; "the has come upon me," cried The Lady Of Shalott. i know its a bit long but the can be 4 or more lines long
It could be the relationship between the artist and society.The relationship between Lady and Prince (Infatuation) (Some say she may have died of a broken heart)Deprivation: She's alone in the tower under the spell of a curse without even knowing.Liberation: After she realizes that she has a curse upon her, the Lady of Shalott does not die immediately. Her exposure to the real world, even though it means her death, also means that she can express herself directly in the world. She leaves the tower, finds a boat, and writes her title on it before lying in it and casting off.
Metaphor -- an imaginative comparison NOT using "like" or "as." It is implied or outright stated that one thing IS the other.Examples:a) "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas" (from Noyes' "The Highwayman") Two metaphors here!
Poverty is a curse upon humanity because it causes great suffering.
The curse of leprosy was not sent upon the wife of Moses. The curse was sent upon his sister, Miriam, when she and brother Aaron spoke against Moses and his wife.
A curse.
She turns to look at Sir Lancelot riding by because she loves him. She knows she'll die for looking so she leaves to finally see the world herself instead of the reflection in the mirror.. That's my interpretation but Alfred Lord Tennyson may have intended a different meaning
An imprecation is a curse. To imprecate is to call a curse upon someone or something.