John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

A detailed Summary of John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

John Keats is a great British poet. He has written many popular poems.

La Belle Dame sans Merci is a ballad that was written in 1819. In this ballad, the knight is deceived by the woman he meets. He falls in love with this woman instantly and is convinced that she too is in love with him. The woman makes the knight fall for her by making herself beautiful. The woman deceives the knight into trusting her and then when she takes him to her cave, she breaks his heart by leaving him after the knight wakes up from a nightmare.

The first stanza of this ballad describes the knight as being lonely in the wilderness. A Alone and palely loitering. @ The knight is alone and wandering around on his horse. A And no birds sing. @ In this sentence he describes his sadness because the singing of birds is associated with happiness and the birds are not singing.

In this quote the knight is troubled because everything is going as it is supposed to, the granary is full and the harvest is done. This is why the knight is also sad and roaming around on h

AThey cried - La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!@. This quote says that the kings and princes are warning the knight that this woman is a beautiful woman without mercy.

Her hair was long, her foot was light,

is horse. In the next stanza, the knight is described as exhausted in appearance and afflicted. "And on thy cheeks a fading rose fast withereth too." The colour of his skin is fading away, and he is dying.

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Approximate Word count = 766
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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