It´s about something you really like. For instance love, computer games or drugs. The moment you consume you can´t stop. But finally when it is over or goes away you feel very sad. Keats points out that there is no reason to be sad. This is the real life, you are alive so get on with it!!!
The title "La Belle Dame sans Merci" translates to "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy" in English. The title is justified in the poem as the beautiful fairy-like woman lures the knight into her world with promises of love and then leaves him desolate and abandoned, showing no mercy for his suffering.
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" (French: "The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a Ballad written by the English poet John Keats.
The poem depicts an encounter between a fairy and a knight.
"the Lady without Mercy/Pity"
To justify the title you must first figure out who YOU think the woman is. There are many interpretations Keats leaves it up to the reader.
Popularly, the woman represents "love in general." So with that title Keats is saying that love has no mercy.
There are many theories on the message of this ballad. There is no right or wrong answer. Personally I believe the poem shows the Romantic1 longing for impossible love, the need to escape and the desire for the unattainable.
1Writers of the romantic era (Romantics) commonly wrote about such things.
John Keats usually operated on many levels at a time, with one poem having multiple meanings at once.
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The Knight is now like the pale, starving kings, princesses and warriors who tried to warn him; fallen deathly enslaved to impossible love and the Romantic desire for the unattainable.
The Knight is now like the pale, starving kings, princesses and warriors who tried to warn him; fallen deathly enslaved to impossible love and the Romantic desire for the unattainable.
The beautiful lady without pity/mercy
U tell me.
The cast of La Belle Dame Sans Merci - 2011 includes: Graeme Donaldson as John Ashleigh Gloyne as Mary Ian Lawlor as Demon Sara Rose Dickson as La Belle Dame
John Keats's poem was based on a poem with the same title by Alain Cartier. 9 famous paintings were made after Keats's poem, depicting 'la belle dame sans merci' and the knight, from 1848 to 1926.
John Keats
The rhyme scheme of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats is ABABCB.
the lady without mercy/pity
The cast of La belle dame sans merci - 1920 includes: Tania Daleyme as Lola de Sandoval Lucien Glen as Lucien Louis Monfils
The cast of La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats - 1996 includes: Annie Carpenter Elizabeth Jasicki Joseph Millson
The beautiful lady without pity is an English equivalent of 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' by English poet John Keats [October 31, 1795-February 23, 1821].
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imagery, repetition, personification, alitteration
mercy or pity in Englsh and merci in French mean about the same. "La belle dame sans merci" -- John Keats