'The Lady Of Shalott' by Lord Tennyson, is about a lady who has been banished to the island of Shalott and is only allowed to view the outside world through a mirror. Unfortunately, when Sir Lancelot goes by, the Lady of Shalott looks directly at him and sets off the curse, so she leaves her house and dies in a boat as she floats down to camelot. 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' by William Wordsworth is about two completely different people, Harry Gill and Goody Blake. The only way Goody Blake could survive winter, was by taking old, rotten twigs from Harry's hedge, but he grabs her arm and she puts a curse on him, so he can never again be warm.

'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' is mainly set in the past, although it starts off in the present, saying what Harry is like now. Then it goes back maybe a couple of years in a flashback, to when this began. It is set in Dorsetshire, during the winter. Goody Blake's house was described as a 'poor' hut. From what we hear about Harry Gill, we would think that he has quite a good house. 'The Lady of Shalott' is set on and around the island of Shalott, which is in the middle of a river that runs past camelot. On the island there is a large house with 'four grey walls and four grey towers', which is surounded by nature (plants etc.). On either side of the river are long fields of 'barley' and 'rye'. It is set near harvest, we know this because Tennyson mentions the 'reapers', reaping early.
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In 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' only characters are mentioned which are, Goody Blake and Harry Gill. Goody Blake and Harry Gill are very different. Goody Blake was an old woman who has very little and bad clothes, we know this from Tennyson's use of the words 'thinly clad'. Goody Blake was very poor, and was ill fed. She lived in a small hut on the side of a cold hill. Harry Gill is a young man who was strong and had a lot of good clothes. We know from the amount of clothes he had and the ...

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