In "The Lady of Shalott," the Lady lives alone on the little island of Shalott. After the picture of Sir Lancelot shows up in her mirror, the Lady wrongly looks out the window at Camelot. Soon after, she dies.
<em>Sacrifices are necessary to create great art.</em>
In the lyrical poem "The Lady of Shallot," Tennyson describes a woman who is trapped in a tower under a curse. The curse is that she can never look outside the window, which means that her only interactions with the world are through a mirror. The lady spends all her time weaving images of the things that she sees in the mirror. One of the central ideas present in the poem is that sacrifices are necessary in order to create great art. This is the case of the lady and her art.
it is the title of a song. The song is about a war and how even the smartest of people refuse to fight. therefore they are fighting against the power (power being war)
"poetic description" is the only real option from the list that is not common in expository writing, although careful descriptions can indeed be used as long as the point remains clear and forceful.