How to justify the title of the poem La Belle Dame sans Merci?

Answer 1

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!!!

Answer 2

"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.

Answer 3

"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.

Answer 4

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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Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

The beautiful lady without pity/mercy