Question

From "The Lady of Shalott"

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale-yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining,
Heavily the low sky raining
Over tower'd Camelot;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott.

And down the river's dim expanse—
Like some bold seër in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance—
With a glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.

The setting sun in the painting and the gathering storm in the poem create a feeling of

tranquility

despair

hope

stability

Answer 1

The answer is b) Despair                                                        

Answer 2

The correct answer is "despair".

Although she knows that the sky is turning grey with the incoming clouds and a storm is imminent. The Lady of Shallot is determined to run away. As she comes down her path, she sees a boat and immediately takes it. Fearless of the dangers that could come as a product of the incoming rain.