How is Sir Lancelot described in The Lady of Shalott?

How is Sir Lancelot described in The Lady of Shalott? He is described in an array of colors: he is a “red-cross knight”; his shield “sparkled on the yellow field”; he wears a “silver bugle”; he passes through “blue unclouded weather” and the “purple night,” and he has “coal-black curls. What does Lancelot represent in … Continue reading How is Sir Lancelot described in The Lady of Shalott?