LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

πŸ“š LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI πŸ“š
- John Keats

The poem is John Keats’s finest ballad in English literature. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad, a form of medieval art, which is revived by John Keats.

The title loosely translates into “the beautiful woman with no mercy”. As we read the poem it becomes clear that the knight had his feelings shattered by this woman on his steed.

The poem narrates a story of a knight's disappointed love with a fairy who is a mysterious lady. Once a knight was wandering about in a sad and dejected mood by the side of the lake.

Someone or the poet asked the knight why he was so pale and haggard. The knight replied that he had met a beautiful lady in the meadows and was fascinated by her looks and beautiful features.

 She also fell in love with him. They both rode on a horseback, till they reached the cave of the fairy. There the lady expressed her love for him and lulled him to sleep. 

He saw a dream. In the dream he saw pale kings and warriors. All of them told him that the beautiful lady without mercy had captivated him.

Their manner of warning terrified him. He woke up. Instead of finding himself in the cave of his lady-love, he found himself by the side of the hill.

This was the reason why he was pale and haggard. Frustration in love made him sad, dejected, pale and haggard-
looking.

The poem narrates a sad and tragic love, betrayal of a mortal being who falls in love with a fairy. 

Just as the knight in the poem could not get the love of his beloved fairy, Keats also could not get success in love with Fanny his lover.

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