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 o
The knight then trusts the woman enough to fall asleep. This is another way the woman is deceiving the knight. In the next stanza, the knight is described as exhausted in appearance and afflicted. He falls in love with her immediately. While the knight is sleeping, he describes a nightmare that he had. " The colour of his skin is fading away, and he is dying. After, the woman took the knight into her enchanted cave where the woman cried. The woman sees the knight as a perfect victim because the knight is alone, sad and wandering aimlessly in this poem. The knight is convinced that the woman is also in love with him when she says A I love thee true. AThey cried - La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!@. Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild. I met a lady in the meadsFull beautiful - a faery=s child. He makes a wreath of flowers to decorate her head and also he made her bracelets to show his love for her. After he awakens from this nightmare, he fins himself alone on the hill side.
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