The Lady of Shalott

The Lady is a lonely and doomed figure and Tennyson used her in several poems and plays, just as he used Fair Rosamond. This painting of The Lady is by John William Waterhouse in 1888, the first of four in this chapter, the others being of Circe and Penelope, as well as La Belle Dame sans Merci. The implication I'm making is that The Lady resembles Calypso, except she is in the boat, not Odysseus, going to find her mortality.

The same principle seems to underline Swiss Symbolist Arnold Böcklin's series, Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) - so named by others - below is the third he produced in the series, also during the 1880's.