I love Loreena's musical version of this poem and never tire of listening to it. Her song inspired me to write a short story, Shallot Revisted. I entered it in a literary contest and won second place... it was the first contest I ever entered. Thank you both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Loreena McKennitt.
This is absolutely beautiful, I just learned this poem a few weeks ago, and I wish I had found this song before. Thank you very much for sharing this beauty to us :-)
My literature professor played this in class. At 9:25am and not being a morning person, it wasn't easy staying awake with such a long, soothing song playing.
One could question the entire "Christian" faith if referring to the Roman Catholics as the bulk of the Christian faith. They "borrowed" so much from the Celtic traditions, incorporating their gods into sainthood, even stealing Celtic songs and placing "Christian" lyrics in place of the original ones. That type of religion is a borrowed religion with no true roots. What one believes in the heart has much more weight than religious vanities.
Very nice! Lovely pictures, also. The tragedy of the Lady of Shalott is the Gnostic's tragedy of seeing the Real World only as in a Mirror darkly... yet, in the end, only death will bring you the True reality of the Spiritual Realms & the Love of the Divine that is sought after more than gold. A lot of the Arthurian Legends can be understood that way - the story of the Holy Grail, also, has a deeper meaning. It was written when Gnosticism was under attack.
@Mellisa582010 Tennyson was a 'Romantic' era poet. The Romantics looked to nature, it's beauty and mystery, for a sense of Spiritualism. Here he uses the Arthurian imagery and more than a bit of Pagan references to Fairies and Magic to cast this poetic spell. It's got about as much to do with Christianity as Elves and Witches. It's closer to Lord of the Rings than the Bible. If you can't enjoy it without moralizing about it, you should read the Bible more, and Literature a bit less. Just sayin'.
@terrybeaton LOTR is a Roman Catholic Myth - Tolkien, himself, said so in a letter of a priest... So Lord of the Rings is not a pagan myth - Gandalf, Aragorn & Frodo are all Christlike attributes - its a Christian, & yes, Christians do have myths! My mother, an Italian told me of many that go back centuries, all away to the arrival of Christianity in Italy. As for the bible, I am not a mainstream Christian, My favorite gospel is as the very Gnostic "Gospel if St. Thomas!
@Mellisa582010 After the Albigensian crusade we Gnostics went underground for centuries while hiding our wisdom right out in the open i.e. the Tarot, The Arthur cycle, fairy tales, folk tales, art (tapestry) and literature. There is nothing wrong in finding morals, insights & meaning in poetry, prose, art, fairy tales or anywhere else, the pleasure I find in looking for the the deepest meanings of these, only enhances my love of them.
@Mellisa582010 After hearing your argument in your response to yourself I guess I agree with your main points. It's never a bad thing to look deeper into all types of Literature and Religous writings. You appear to have a very open mind. My Apologies.
@skblanch It matters which Christianity you mean and it matters what how you define the word "Triumphed" - "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but lose his immortal soul?" Well the Church gained the whole world and lost its soul. We Gnostics lost everything But kept our souls. I would suggest that ours is the better fate.
My Italian grandmother Rosa practiced the old ways yet would have been shocked to hear anyone say that she couldn't also be a Roman Catholic.
My English Teacher played this in our class and it instantly became our class song. Now that I'm studying to become an English Teacher myself, I can hardly wait to show my own classes this song.
incredible pictures...I listened to this some weeks ago at night at a lonesome beach on a tiny denish island...and had rather the same pictures in my brain :-)
This is, I think, the best video of Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" on Youtube. Alas, there are a lot of drastically shortened versions. It's important, I believe, to hear her full version (15 verses, a bit shorter than Tennyson's original) - to allow oneself to be caught up in it, mesmerised, swept away. Plus your images are well-chosen, beautiful. (I saw her perform this, the "long version", on stage in London in 1991. Totally doubtful at the beginning, I was soon transfixed.)
Your video is just beautiful! I love the beautiful photos! Even more beautiful because of the snow! Thank you for taking the time to make this, and for sharing! Great match of visuals with the song!
Normally I'm completely opposed to posting comments that reference the number of people that don't like a video, because it seems like begging for thumbs up, but this time it must be said that I don't understand for the life of me how those 2 people decided to not like this, this is such a pure, emotional, wonderful song, 10 minutes isn't enough, I could listen to it 144 times a day...
I absolutely love this poem and song, so heart breaking and beautiful. My senior year, we studied the poem in english for a week, and then on friday my teacher played this for us. She was the kinda teacher that let us do whatever, as long as we stayed focused, so me and my bff and a few other people layed down under our desk closing our eyes and me and my friend fell asleep listening to this while the pregnant girl was bawling her eyes out across the room.
Love this song...The Lady of Shalott is my favourite poem and I spent my entire English lesson today whinging that we were doing Hardy and not Tennyson :') not that I don't love Hardy, I just love this more haha
@SilaVendethiel I never understood why we did the most boring poetry in school, when just pages away in our textbooks were the most beautiful lines. Later I came to be grateful, analysing poetry always ruins it, especially when it becomes reduced to words to be translated for homework.
@atlantisreturning it looks like that isn't it when I looked it up... are you sure that's it? I mean the painting with the lady on the horse surprising the knight standing next to her that starts to appear at 1:27 and starts to fade at about 1:35.
I believe this is a preraphaelite painting of La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, an illustration of Keat's beautiful poem (and so much shorter that The Lady Of Shallot that its worth googling it ;-))
@atlantisreturning the painting is "Le Belle Dame Sans Merci"(A Beautiful Woman Without Pity) by Frank Bernard Dicksee. It's an interpretation of John Keat's poem by the same name. It's easy to get Waterhouse and Dicksee confused.
@Cinderella7865 it's a painting by Pre-Raphaelite painter Frank Dicksee depicting the story of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" - there is a poem about that by Keats: which is a different legend from the Lady of Shalot. Hope that helps! :)
@Cinderella7865 It definitely is Waterhouse. But not the lady of Shalott, that one you can see at 00:10. Unfortunately I can´t remember the name and can´t find it on google eighter. I´d guess it´s Guinevere meeting Lancelot.
Hey there! It's a painting by Frank Dicksee called "Le Belle Dame Sans Merci" from 1902 :) It's also one of my favorite Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Hope that helps
I believe this is a preraphaelite painting of La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, an illustration of Keat's beautiful poem (and so much shorter that The Lady Of Shallot that its worth googling it ;-))
By Dicksee perhaps, Rossetti or Waterhouse, I'm not sure
@Cinderella7865 it's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", by Sir Frank Dicksee. We saw it in class this morning because we were analysing the poem with the same title, by John Keats ^_^
It's a very good poem, have a look at it if you can!
@Cinderella7865 : if You search fpr the painting, look up the "ARC-Museum-Search" Website, search for the painter , the original painting You find in the "Tate-Britain" Gallery inLondon
@Cinderella7865 it's actually La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. It's based off the ballad by John Keats. I have a copy hanging in my bedroom. ~.^
@Cinderella7865 all the paintings look like james williams waterhouse who was a pre raphaelite look them up and you should be able to find paintings all similar to these...i love the pre raphaelites
My teacher did a presentation on this in class. I laughed when she showed this song to the class like the others. But.... I love this song/poem. Very Beautiful.
They ruined the whole meaning of this beautiful song, and breathtaking poem in the disney movie "Avalon High".....I was pissed! They ruined thewhole legend. I feel bad for Lord Tennyson, Loreena McKennitt, Meg Cabot and the whole Arthurs court.
William Wallace should swoop down and save her with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. Then gallop off into the winter wood casually beheading Harry Potter on his way.
Nicely "preraffaelite" rendition! Why not the *whole* poem? All in all, I'm not fond of newly romanticized, "fantasy"-like stuff. This song is the exception from the rule. Maybe it's because I used to do studies on Preraffaelite painters, their reception of the "Mort d'Arthur" in particular... :))
Growing up on the Canadian border, I was aware of Ms. McKennitt's work, and was able to get it in Ontario. After "Mummer's Dance", you could get it in the States. Before that, I remember driving in So. Cal. and listening to this song on public radio at around 3am. The DJ cut in to the song and said, "This is Loreena McKennitt from Canada. Please quit calling the station.", and the song resumed.
My heart was warmed to see that even So. Cal. knows what great music is when they hear it.
A re-mix of the instrumental portions of the song are used in the OST score of the famous Canadian picture "Léolo". It most extensively plays during the closing credits. Grand music - simple and haunting.
16 years ago i was on a crossroad in my life, i didn't knew anymore how to live, i listened to this song and i could think clearly again , listened again and again and again and life could be beautiful again.....................
i love the poem i kno most of it by heart my father would read it to me every nyt.... but not anymore it kool anyway i love this poem tho!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^.^
awesome! it's fine that the last line is left off-- if people want it, they can just buy the CD, no?
love this poem/song-- studied the poem this year in a class, and then was able to see a waterhouse exhibit where i stared at his "lady of shalott" paintings for an hour or so, thinking of all the lines in this poem.
I understand YouTube has a 10 minute-limit rule; but if I remember, aren't two stanzas missing in the recording? Any reason why McKennitt chose to leave those out? As an English major, I loved McKennitt's setting classic poems to music.
@Tamerleen You can find the entire song from the CD titled "The Visit" every song on this cd is amazing. You wont be sorry if you buy it. I still have one after 15 years, and I've given away several copies over the years. I saw her in Boulder years ago, she sounds just as wonderful live as she does here, and she was so gracious and wonderful to sign my daughters program that night.
Thank you so much for posting this. I first heard this song in the 80's on public radio, and I hunted endlessly until I was able to buy the cassette..yeah, it was a long time ago!! My daughter and I saw Loreena in Boulder, CO one night. She sounds just the same live...and she was so kind and gracious to sign my daughters program at the end of her show. She is a wonderful blessing to all of us that hear her voice.
It is such a beautiful poem, song, and the painting by waterhouse is also very pretty !! Love the theme and the beatiful romantic elements that make this so tragically perfect
@SaSin1 It is a twist on the theme of courtly love. In the courtly love tradition, the greatest love was between a pure hearted man and a woman who was unattainable--usually because she was married to someone else. In this poem, the lover is the Lady, the unattainable object of her affection, Lancelot.
@fileboy2002 wrong... the poem says she was cursed and cannot look at Camelot. she say Lancelot through her mirror and fell in love. she had to experienced emotion before thus the power of love is that which killed her.
Maravilloso tema principal para una película como Léolo, de J.-C. Lauzon, no menos maravillosa y terrible.
CesMorMar 1 week ago
I love Loreena's musical version of this poem and never tire of listening to it. Her song inspired me to write a short story, Shallot Revisted. I entered it in a literary contest and won second place... it was the first contest I ever entered. Thank you both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Loreena McKennitt.
Lamadriver1948 2 weeks ago
This is absolutely beautiful, I just learned this poem a few weeks ago, and I wish I had found this song before. Thank you very much for sharing this beauty to us :-)
TheLittleStarlight 2 weeks ago
AS ALWAYS INCREDIBLE LOVELY LOREENA... U MAKE ME CRY LIKE A BABY....
STACEY GOLDBERG HALE
SOKA6173 2 weeks ago
My literature professor played this in class. At 9:25am and not being a morning person, it wasn't easy staying awake with such a long, soothing song playing.
shogunrommel 4 weeks ago
This is BEAUTIFUL
NenadlPopovic 1 month ago
One could question the entire "Christian" faith if referring to the Roman Catholics as the bulk of the Christian faith. They "borrowed" so much from the Celtic traditions, incorporating their gods into sainthood, even stealing Celtic songs and placing "Christian" lyrics in place of the original ones. That type of religion is a borrowed religion with no true roots. What one believes in the heart has much more weight than religious vanities.
Lcromes 1 month ago
Very nice! Lovely pictures, also. The tragedy of the Lady of Shalott is the Gnostic's tragedy of seeing the Real World only as in a Mirror darkly... yet, in the end, only death will bring you the True reality of the Spiritual Realms & the Love of the Divine that is sought after more than gold. A lot of the Arthurian Legends can be understood that way - the story of the Holy Grail, also, has a deeper meaning. It was written when Gnosticism was under attack.
Mellisa582010 1 month ago
@Mellisa582010 Tennyson was a 'Romantic' era poet. The Romantics looked to nature, it's beauty and mystery, for a sense of Spiritualism. Here he uses the Arthurian imagery and more than a bit of Pagan references to Fairies and Magic to cast this poetic spell. It's got about as much to do with Christianity as Elves and Witches. It's closer to Lord of the Rings than the Bible. If you can't enjoy it without moralizing about it, you should read the Bible more, and Literature a bit less. Just sayin'.
terrybeaton 1 week ago
@terrybeaton LOTR is a Roman Catholic Myth - Tolkien, himself, said so in a letter of a priest... So Lord of the Rings is not a pagan myth - Gandalf, Aragorn & Frodo are all Christlike attributes - its a Christian, & yes, Christians do have myths! My mother, an Italian told me of many that go back centuries, all away to the arrival of Christianity in Italy. As for the bible, I am not a mainstream Christian, My favorite gospel is as the very Gnostic "Gospel if St. Thomas!
Mellisa582010 6 days ago
@Mellisa582010 After the Albigensian crusade we Gnostics went underground for centuries while hiding our wisdom right out in the open i.e. the Tarot, The Arthur cycle, fairy tales, folk tales, art (tapestry) and literature. There is nothing wrong in finding morals, insights & meaning in poetry, prose, art, fairy tales or anywhere else, the pleasure I find in looking for the the deepest meanings of these, only enhances my love of them.
Mellisa582010 6 days ago
@Mellisa582010 After hearing your argument in your response to yourself I guess I agree with your main points. It's never a bad thing to look deeper into all types of Literature and Religous writings. You appear to have a very open mind. My Apologies.
terrybeaton 6 days ago
Essa musica representa o que ha de mais belo no cancioneiro mundial. Pura magia, puro encantamento. Eu simplesmente plano, voo.
shesjohn 2 months ago 2
Beautiful scenery.
ADyingFaith 2 months ago 2
I adore this. Simply amazing. <3
Helyn12 2 months ago 2
This poem is also symbolic of the triumph of Christianity, represented by Lancelot and Camelot, over the old pagan ways represented by the Lady.
MzScarlet1 2 months ago 4
@MzScarlet1 Has Christianity truly triumphed, when the old ways are still with us? Here then, now and always...
skblanch 1 month ago 3
@skblanch It matters which Christianity you mean and it matters what how you define the word "Triumphed" - "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but lose his immortal soul?" Well the Church gained the whole world and lost its soul. We Gnostics lost everything But kept our souls. I would suggest that ours is the better fate.
My Italian grandmother Rosa practiced the old ways yet would have been shocked to hear anyone say that she couldn't also be a Roman Catholic.
Mellisa582010 1 month ago
8:38... sigh.
tgirl33 3 months ago
the best song I`ve ever heard: the voice carries you above everything.
MsDovewings 4 months ago 8
My English Teacher played this in our class and it instantly became our class song. Now that I'm studying to become an English Teacher myself, I can hardly wait to show my own classes this song.
KertariWhitpaw 4 months ago 27
@KertariWhitpaw My English teacher did the same, so awesome. And i too wanna be an English teacher and wanna show them this song too =P
DarkNomad347 1 month ago
a few days ago, my literature teacher played this song and since then, i loved this!
perivt 4 months ago 3
Probably the best youtube video I've seen in what pictures is concerned. Amazing song too.
TheSunWisdom 4 months ago 2
The ending part is missing when Lancelot speaks. :(( but other than that I LOVE this song and poem. :)
02Salem 5 months ago
For Karen of Sutton Bridge the Lady that Captured my Heart and Soul , i hope i am worthy of her Love and Trust
nomadsoulxyz 5 months ago
Grew up to this song! I adore it!
modelgirl2793 5 months ago
kidding lol Loreena is a most beautifully voiced singer and I have never heard and never will hear a more beautiful voice than hers.
bethelenkay 5 months ago in playlist Loreena McKennitt Playlist
I'm gene shallott. nahahahahahhahahaha
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TheSunWisdom 5 months ago
falling in <3 with this poem.
jea29 6 months ago
Leolo owns this song...
Hellzyead 6 months ago
Absolutely stunning images! Thank you so much for letting me see some of my home land again! Makes me homesick for her...
janedough66 6 months ago
incredible pictures...I listened to this some weeks ago at night at a lonesome beach on a tiny denish island...and had rather the same pictures in my brain :-)
Thanks for loading.
Amdaro 6 months ago
This song was played to me when I was a baby.. :3
Nice song,
SasuSaku718 6 months ago
MY teacher showed us this poem being sung and The Stolen Child they touch me in the heart. Man, I will miss her.
goldnlamb 7 months ago
My favourite poem ever and one of my faves singers!! pretty images :D
ZanthiaKhala 7 months ago
Thank you, thank you, tank you so much for this song!!!
Alusdrann 7 months ago 2
I found this because I heard the song "Shalott" by Emilie Autumn and was interested on what the Lady of Shalott was.
Feydrian 7 months ago 2
i louv this amzing song.... so special :) beatiful singing.. so wannna learn more about this :)
MrMclout 8 months ago
i louv this amzing song.... so special :)
MrMclout 8 months ago
This is, I think, the best video of Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" on Youtube. Alas, there are a lot of drastically shortened versions. It's important, I believe, to hear her full version (15 verses, a bit shorter than Tennyson's original) - to allow oneself to be caught up in it, mesmerised, swept away. Plus your images are well-chosen, beautiful. (I saw her perform this, the "long version", on stage in London in 1991. Totally doubtful at the beginning, I was soon transfixed.)
jarabaa 8 months ago
2 people are half-sick of shadows!
Camalot777 8 months ago
Before I die, I wish I could see all those places.
love4remind 8 months ago
Your video is just beautiful! I love the beautiful photos! Even more beautiful because of the snow! Thank you for taking the time to make this, and for sharing! Great match of visuals with the song!
musicaroo22 9 months ago
@thefinalb0ss a very good place to start tearing up. I start to tear up @ 10:10
1lonelyprince 9 months ago
on second thought, let's not go to Camelot. it is a silly place
ishouldplayzelda 9 months ago 2
Normally I'm completely opposed to posting comments that reference the number of people that don't like a video, because it seems like begging for thumbs up, but this time it must be said that I don't understand for the life of me how those 2 people decided to not like this, this is such a pure, emotional, wonderful song, 10 minutes isn't enough, I could listen to it 144 times a day...
thefinalb0ss 9 months ago
I've always loved the Lady of Shalott. This is just so beautiful!
SillySillyBellBell 9 months ago
I absolutely love this poem and song, so heart breaking and beautiful. My senior year, we studied the poem in english for a week, and then on friday my teacher played this for us. She was the kinda teacher that let us do whatever, as long as we stayed focused, so me and my bff and a few other people layed down under our desk closing our eyes and me and my friend fell asleep listening to this while the pregnant girl was bawling her eyes out across the room.
DanniElizabethS 9 months ago
Dude, I am writing a giant-ass paper on this poem for my Victorian Lit course. Think I can cite this stunning musical interpretation as a source?
Because, you know, any excuse to include Loreena McKennitt in my academic work is an epic win in my books.
lollerfisk 10 months ago 2
I'm a guy and this song made me nearly cry. This is possibly one of my favorite poems ever written
1lonelyprince 11 months ago
@1lonelyprince
There's nothing shameful about that, I can't help but cry when I get to 6:30.
thefinalb0ss 9 months ago
this is a great video--thanks! i could be desperately in love with LM!
moonbeamchaos 11 months ago
our teacher made us watch this
126Oli 1 year ago
The song cuts off at its most significant moment! What a rip off! Take this down!
calvintoronto 1 year ago
The poem was written by Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson
Germaninanchorage 1 year ago
beautiful just beautiful I so love her singing this
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Divena100 1 year ago
beautiful just beautiful
Divena100 1 year ago
2:17 - I swear to God I've been there. Four years ago. Whoa.
FireofSekhmet 1 year ago 2
Love this song...The Lady of Shalott is my favourite poem and I spent my entire English lesson today whinging that we were doing Hardy and not Tennyson :') not that I don't love Hardy, I just love this more haha
SilaVendethiel 1 year ago 2
@SilaVendethiel I never understood why we did the most boring poetry in school, when just pages away in our textbooks were the most beautiful lines. Later I came to be grateful, analysing poetry always ruins it, especially when it becomes reduced to words to be translated for homework.
maltakat 10 months ago
@maltakat That's true. And Tennyson's are a bit long to analyse...ah well, love him dearly :)
SilaVendethiel 10 months ago
i m not from islands:( but i love there and their legends.
primeevil23 1 year ago
I remember my high school English Teacher played this in our class and I instantly fell in love with it.
bluesboy25000 1 year ago 15
It's sad to see how many hearts Lancelot broke in his day. He was Romeo to so many women who pined away wishing they could be his Juliet.
amadaria 1 year ago
this is lovely, if only the time limit had allowed you to keep my favorite part of the song:
"Lancelot mused a little space, he said she has a lovely face. God in his mercy grant her grace, the lady of Shalott."
Tressofthenorth 1 year ago
if this is playing in heaven, I wouldn't be surprised (:
SilaVendethiel 1 year ago
this is amazing. what's the painting at 1:33?
Cinderella7865 1 year ago 4
@Cinderella7865 its the "lady of shalott" by John William Waterhouse. you can find the pic on google when you go to pictures....many greetings!
atlantisreturning 1 year ago 3
@atlantisreturning it looks like that isn't it when I looked it up... are you sure that's it? I mean the painting with the lady on the horse surprising the knight standing next to her that starts to appear at 1:27 and starts to fade at about 1:35.
Cinderella7865 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865 sorry, i cannot find the pic anymore on the web...
atlantisreturning 1 year ago
@atlantisreturning Greetings. To find that picture, simply google "la belle dame sans merci", which is the name of the painting. :)
I'm 24 and I have loved Loreena McKennit since I was a young boy, thanks for the upload!
JayDub6996 11 months ago
@atlantisreturning
I believe this is a preraphaelite painting of La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, an illustration of Keat's beautiful poem (and so much shorter that The Lady Of Shallot that its worth googling it ;-))
By Dicksee perhaps, or Waterhouse, I'm not sure
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aphotog24 5 months ago
@atlantisreturning the painting is "Le Belle Dame Sans Merci"(A Beautiful Woman Without Pity) by Frank Bernard Dicksee. It's an interpretation of John Keat's poem by the same name. It's easy to get Waterhouse and Dicksee confused.
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@Cinderella7865 The picture depicts “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by Sir Frank Dicksee.
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sauvage301 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865
While that picture is by W. Waterhouse, it is not The Lady of Shalott but Belle Dame Sans Merci (The Lady with no mercy).
theGreatRedFrizz 8 months ago
@Cinderella7865
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Francis Dixie...one of my favs ever.
JessicaRMccampbell 6 months ago
@Cinderella7865 La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee
innisart 6 months ago
@Cinderella7865 c'est la belle dame sans merci :) I love the Pre-Raphaelites :D
Mahnor 5 months ago
@Cinderella7865 The painting is called Belle Dame Sans Merci
Frank Bernard Dicksee
You can purchase a poster of it on Allposters.
nursefuzzywuzzy 4 months ago
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aphotog24 5 months ago
@Cinderella7865 The Painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee, one of my favorites!
marquedesade 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865 The Painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee, one of my favorites!
Waterhouse also does a very nice La Belle Dame Sans Merci
marquedesade 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865 It's La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee
bunnysvfd 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865
Sir Frank Dicksee's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', based on John Keats poem of the same name.
GinBenj 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865: Sir Frank Dicksee's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', based on John Keats' poem of the same name.
GinBenj 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865 I think it's connected to belle dame sans merci. try googling that instead if you havent yet.
leiyang89 1 year ago
@Cinderella7865 It's called "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by Frank Bernard Dicksee
Devil5on 11 months ago
@Cinderella7865 it's a painting by Pre-Raphaelite painter Frank Dicksee depicting the story of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" - there is a poem about that by Keats: which is a different legend from the Lady of Shalot. Hope that helps! :)
edenrising 11 months ago
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TataruSama 10 months ago
@Cinderella7865 It definitely is Waterhouse. But not the lady of Shalott, that one you can see at 00:10. Unfortunately I can´t remember the name and can´t find it on google eighter. I´d guess it´s Guinevere meeting Lancelot.
MrsFingerhut 10 months ago
@Cinderella7865 It is "La belle dame sans merci" by Frank Dicksee.
MrsFingerhut 10 months ago
@Cinderella7865 i think it's called la belle dame sans merci
srh1989cam 10 months ago
@Cinderella7865
Hey there! It's a painting by Frank Dicksee called "Le Belle Dame Sans Merci" from 1902 :) It's also one of my favorite Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Hope that helps
Nat5184 10 months ago
@Cinderella7865 I think you mean "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by Frank Dicksee
Lynda52904 9 months ago
@Cinderella7865 - the painting you want is called La Belle Dame sans Merci by Frank Dicksee
Lynda52904 9 months ago
@Cinderella7865
I believe this is a preraphaelite painting of La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, an illustration of Keat's beautiful poem (and so much shorter that The Lady Of Shallot that its worth googling it ;-))
By Dicksee perhaps, Rossetti or Waterhouse, I'm not sure
lunedecrystal 8 months ago
@Cinderella7865 Its actually "Guenièvre et Lancelot",
Vetthaner 8 months ago
@Cinderella7865 it's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", by Sir Frank Dicksee. We saw it in class this morning because we were analysing the poem with the same title, by John Keats ^_^
It's a very good poem, have a look at it if you can!
bewater21 8 months ago
@Cinderella7865 : if You search fpr the painting, look up the "ARC-Museum-Search" Website, search for the painter , the original painting You find in the "Tate-Britain" Gallery inLondon
szeblany 6 months ago
@Cinderella7865 The painting is "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by Sir Frank Dicksee
braddahoi 6 months ago
@Cinderella7865
Hi the painting is "La belle dame sans merci" by Sir Frank Dicksee
subductionzone54 6 months ago
@Cinderella7865 it's actually La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. It's based off the ballad by John Keats. I have a copy hanging in my bedroom. ~.^
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rebecafm 4 months ago
@Cinderella7865 all the paintings look like james williams waterhouse who was a pre raphaelite look them up and you should be able to find paintings all similar to these...i love the pre raphaelites
meribugify 4 months ago
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daemongar 4 months ago
@Cinderella7865 The pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Frank Dicksee's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,' inspired by Keat's poem.
Usernameisjacob 3 months ago 3
hi thx a lot for sharing
9Equinox 1 year ago
My teacher did a presentation on this in class. I laughed when she showed this song to the class like the others. But.... I love this song/poem. Very Beautiful.
starstrukk1905 1 year ago
Supreme, outstanding!
jfarinhote 1 year ago
Oooh.... I like this country (actually that country, because I'm Dutch), I like that song and I like those paintings
But you allready knew it from my video's !
Where is the beautifull waterfall at 7:04 ?
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philipApart 1 year ago
They ruined the whole meaning of this beautiful song, and breathtaking poem in the disney movie "Avalon High".....I was pissed! They ruined thewhole legend. I feel bad for Lord Tennyson, Loreena McKennitt, Meg Cabot and the whole Arthurs court.
MusicalxMe001 1 year ago
Pure and simple
lunautube 1 year ago
what is the whole poem about??
SaulManriquez95 1 year ago
Serenely,haunting musical pearl
Your photographic signature
Illuminating its crystaline beauty
Exellently done
****
DeAnima2 1 year ago
McKennitt is truly a goddess of song
ishouldplayzelda 1 year ago
When studying this in highschool the teacher played this song for us. =) I think it's so beautiful!
SillyRamaBubbles 1 year ago
okay whose the idiot who disliked?!
TheRainbowChihuahua 1 year ago 2
William Wallace should swoop down and save her with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. Then gallop off into the winter wood casually beheading Harry Potter on his way.
TheBaconlaser 1 year ago 36
@TheBaconlaser
O_O
dollarsmctush 10 months ago
Sad and beautiful all in one. Incredible song, incredible singer.
bravdos 1 year ago
Just heard this song today and I just love it! :D
animeking1357 1 year ago
this is the poem in "band named perry" 's video "if i die young".
dereckc18 1 year ago
My English teacher played this yesterday after we read the poem in English 103... Haven't been able to get t out of my head since. :)
PaddySnuffles 1 year ago
more than a trip...
ELENIMC3 1 year ago
Nicely "preraffaelite" rendition! Why not the *whole* poem? All in all, I'm not fond of newly romanticized, "fantasy"-like stuff. This song is the exception from the rule. Maybe it's because I used to do studies on Preraffaelite painters, their reception of the "Mort d'Arthur" in particular... :))
Grandguisier 1 year ago
love the song, love the poem, love
TheIdleman00 1 year ago
Mogę słuchać tego dniami i nocami, w życiu mi się nie znudzi
evvunja 1 year ago
just close your eyes and listen it..
tasoluk31 1 year ago
Such a beautiful song :)
PrueStar 1 year ago
Wow, this still isn't the full version at over ten minutes? The first one I bought was just slightly over four minutes. How long is the full version?
RabitHead 1 year ago 5
@RabitHead the full version is 11.34 minutes...i know , now they extended the space to 15 min. on youtube! i should make the whole version....:-)
atlantisreturning 1 year ago 15
@atlantisreturning I say go for it, this is a beautiful song and I can't find the complete version anywhere else here =)
TheITinFIT 1 year ago
This song always gives me echos of Ophelia's death in Hamlet.
IvyGreensward 1 year ago
Growing up on the Canadian border, I was aware of Ms. McKennitt's work, and was able to get it in Ontario. After "Mummer's Dance", you could get it in the States. Before that, I remember driving in So. Cal. and listening to this song on public radio at around 3am. The DJ cut in to the song and said, "This is Loreena McKennitt from Canada. Please quit calling the station.", and the song resumed.
My heart was warmed to see that even So. Cal. knows what great music is when they hear it.
RexNihilo 1 year ago 2
A re-mix of the instrumental portions of the song are used in the OST score of the famous Canadian picture "Léolo". It most extensively plays during the closing credits. Grand music - simple and haunting.
Grandguisier 1 year ago
dis is a gd sng i lke it alot.. wer cn i gt da ful sng becos dis sng is amasin
jonesi9 1 year ago
@jonesi9 it is on the cd "the visit" of loreena mc kennitt! good luck in finding it. you can also buy it on itunes!
atlantisreturning 1 year ago
@atlantisreturning thx m8
jonesi9 1 year ago
@jonesi9 speak properly
CariLaythorpe 1 year ago
Lancelot mused a little space
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott."
ProbradIII 1 year ago
Anne of Green Gables :)
oranges7795 1 year ago 3
16 years ago i was on a crossroad in my life, i didn't knew anymore how to live, i listened to this song and i could think clearly again , listened again and again and again and life could be beautiful again.....................
misterzwoon 1 year ago
@misterzwoon beautiful words
sohail410 8 months ago
Wonderfull song very good singer lorena
flybye4 1 year ago
i love the poem i kno most of it by heart my father would read it to me every nyt.... but not anymore it kool anyway i love this poem tho!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^.^
JayBird995 1 year ago
i like this song a lot but its just so sad that makes me hate it :(
blackwing1212 1 year ago
yes. you can buy her cd at the local cd store. It has all of her songs in full. haha
ppl00125 1 year ago
awesome! it's fine that the last line is left off-- if people want it, they can just buy the CD, no?
love this poem/song-- studied the poem this year in a class, and then was able to see a waterhouse exhibit where i stared at his "lady of shalott" paintings for an hour or so, thinking of all the lines in this poem.
lornstar6 1 year ago
Does anyone know where I can find the entire song?
Tamerleen 1 year ago
@Tamerleen, you can find it on the cd:" the visit" by Loreena Mc Kennitt
atlantisreturning 1 year ago
@atlantisreturning,
I understand YouTube has a 10 minute-limit rule; but if I remember, aren't two stanzas missing in the recording? Any reason why McKennitt chose to leave those out? As an English major, I loved McKennitt's setting classic poems to music.
Fightflipnfold 1 year ago
@Tamerleen You can find the entire song from the CD titled "The Visit" every song on this cd is amazing. You wont be sorry if you buy it. I still have one after 15 years, and I've given away several copies over the years. I saw her in Boulder years ago, she sounds just as wonderful live as she does here, and she was so gracious and wonderful to sign my daughters program that night.
Kerrykatz4 1 year ago
@Tamerleen god how longs th full song
minglemad 1 year ago
I Heard This Song In School && Love It.<3 (:
bananabelle123 1 year ago
@bananabelle123 no wayy so did i and now im gonna probably put it on my ipod haha
bystander234 1 year ago
My soul dances and cries at the same time while listening to this.
chocoxblood 1 year ago
i felt bad for poor lady of shalott
chewchewchewing 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I first heard this song in the 80's on public radio, and I hunted endlessly until I was able to buy the cassette..yeah, it was a long time ago!! My daughter and I saw Loreena in Boulder, CO one night. She sounds just the same live...and she was so kind and gracious to sign my daughters program at the end of her show. She is a wonderful blessing to all of us that hear her voice.
Kerrykatz4 1 year ago
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!! She's the best female musician I ever heard!!! Her voice is pure magic
QueenArwenElessar 1 year ago
It's missing the last verse.
JohannVF 1 year ago
becase there was not enough space for the rest:-(
atlantisreturning 1 year ago
@atlantisreturning
Half the last verse is missing, a story without an ending! Some other parts missing also, but I still love it!
CHARON1314 1 year ago
@atlantisreturning what if load i up in two Parts? I think, that'll maybe work, but I'M not sure...
KiwiMuffinsRulez 1 year ago
@atlantisreturning
Youtube's time limit recently extended to 15 minute videos, if that helps.
Sadly, 15 minutes IS the limit; as opposed to the 10 minute limit which actually let you upload as much as 11 minutes.
darken27 1 year ago
she has an AMAZING voice!
CatherineWilcox 1 year ago
OMG...Best voice i ve ever heard,...like paradise calling.....i saw her in Greece....magical moments!!!Thanks Loreena!!
Paokara1926Salonika 1 year ago
It is such a beautiful poem, song, and the painting by waterhouse is also very pretty !! Love the theme and the beatiful romantic elements that make this so tragically perfect
LilacNight 1 year ago
ITs about the love the Lady of Shallot held for Lancelot. She ended up killing herself because Lancelot loved the queen and not her.
wolfcub4alphawolf 1 year ago
What is the gist of the meaning of this lovely poem?
SaSin1 1 year ago
@SaSin1 It is a twist on the theme of courtly love. In the courtly love tradition, the greatest love was between a pure hearted man and a woman who was unattainable--usually because she was married to someone else. In this poem, the lover is the Lady, the unattainable object of her affection, Lancelot.
fileboy2002 1 year ago
@fileboy2002 wrong... the poem says she was cursed and cannot look at Camelot. she say Lancelot through her mirror and fell in love. she had to experienced emotion before thus the power of love is that which killed her.