Saturday, January 11, 2020

La Bell Dame Sans Merci (BA Poem)

John Keats:-



John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. 

About Poem:-




The title of the poem 'La Bella Dame Sans Merci' by John Keats is given in the French language the English version of the samme is 'oh beautiful lady certainly thanls'. The present poem is written in the form of a dialogue between the two parties out of which one is an armed knight wandering all alone with a pale face in search of somebody. The other party questions the wandering knight about the reason of his restlessness. The questioner says that the grasslike plant has withered from the lake and no birds sing. The questioner asks while the knight looks very grief stricken. In response to the question asked, the knight tells that he met a beautiful lady who looked at him and the knight sat her man his horse. Both went ahead and the lady sang a fairy song. The lady found food for the knight and admitted her love fir him in a strange language. She them took the knight in her cave. Where she weft the knight shut her eyes and kissed them. The lady then made the knight sleep. In the cave. In the sleep the knight dreamt all the cold hill and visualised pale kings, princes and warriors. They were death - pale. The told the knight in the dream that the beautiful lady is in his custody. The knight saw the starved lios of these dead peaple and all of a sudden awake from the dream on the cold hill side. The knight concludes by saying that than onwards he wanders in search of the beautiful lady he had met long back. 

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