How much mirror is too much mirror?

This poem left me with lots of questions surrounding her curse and her situation. The line is very grey with how she is allowed to look down on Camelot. She glances and sees different reflections out of the corner of her eye in the mirror. Would it break the curse if she blatantly used the mirror to stare down over the land? Lots of other questions remain as well. How did she receive the curse originally? How did she find out that she had the curse? Who decided that it was in her best interest to live in a tower all her life? Still, the poem was very intriguing to me. It was different to anything else we have read thus far because Lady of Shalott has a very artistic mind and the majority of the poem we as readers are tapped into this mind. It really makes me put myself into her shoes and think about what life would be like if I was to only be in one place, and to not be able to look at the only outside world I physically can.

mirror mirror on the wall...

To me, the most interesting aspect of the poem The Lady of Shallot is the mirror itself, rather than the reflections the Lady saw in said mirror. After reading through the poem a couple times, I looked further into what types symbolism mirrors hold, and the general consensus is that mirrors represent awareness, truth, and wisdom. To me, in the context of this poem, this symbolism is extremely interesting. For the Lady's mirror to have shown her Lancelot is to make her aware of the apparent goings on of the world outside her little bubble, but there is no way for her to know the truth behind those events happening around her. So the mirror is showing her things that are certainly happening outside her reality, yet at the same time, the Lady is unable to verify if those things are actually true. And also, for the mirror to be the reason she made a decision that could be seen as "unwise" is ironic as well.

I don't know if this really makes much sense, but it doesn't make much sense to me either. I'm interested to see what others are thinking.

Would you have waited?

In the poem, the Lady of Shallot waits until she sees Lancelot to finally leave and test her curse. Since she did not know what her curse was would you have waited that long before leaving? Would you have left for someone that is most likely the most sought after man or would you have gone for someone that was more attainable? Why do you think she choose that time to finally leave?

So, Ya'll Didn't Recognize Lancelot?

I have several questions surrounding this reading, but there thing in this story that simply makes no sense. How in the world did Arthur and the rest of the Knights fail to recognize Lancelot?!
Lancelot disguised himself with different armor, a new shield, and with a red token that he received from Elaine. As long as he was silent, and stayed out of a fight, he wouldn't be recognized. But when he and Lavayne went into the tournament, King Arthur and the rest of the Knights of the Round Table somehow failed to pick up on Lancelot's fighting style. Even when He was asked who he was, no one was able to the voice as Lancelot's. That makes no sense at all.