This is the same exercise we did with Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” using “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
These were the painting choices:
William Maw Egley (1858)
Arthur Hughes (1873)
Atkinson Grimshaw (1878)
John William Waterhouse (1894)
John William Waterhouse (1916)
John William Waterhouse (1888)
William Holman Hunt (1886-1905)
We repeated the Visible Thinking routine:
And as they were writing, I played this video/song by Loreena McKennitt:
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