Read the excerpt from “the lady of shalott” by alfred, lord tennyson. in which three lines does the poet reveal the monotony of the lady’s existence? no time hath she to sport and play: a charmed web she weaves alway. a curse is on her, if she stay her weaving, either night or day, to look down to camelot. she knows not what the curse may be; therefore she weaveth steadily, therefore no other care hath she, the lady of shalott. she lives with little joy or fear. over the water, running near, the sheep bell tinkles in her ear. before her hangs a mirror clear, reflecting tower'd camelot. and as the mazy web she whirls, she sees the surly village churls, and the red cloaks of market girls pass onward from shalott.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant