La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Created by: hastr010
- Created on: 17-05-18 19:20
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- La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
- 12 quatrains
- cyclical, begins and end the same
- two speakers
- woman as a siren
- 'i love thee true' like a curse
- Blazon
- Keats was known to be awkward around women
- Romanticism
- Medieval imagery
- Magic
- traditional folk ballad
- however is not what the reader might traditionally expect from a courtly ballad
- ABCB rhyme scheme
- poem is mostly in Iambic pentametre
- Regularity
- could represent love
- could represent a spell like a chant or curse
- Regularity
- was woo'd and then woke up alone - woman has power in relationship
- 'the beautiful lady without mercy'
- Ominous tone from start
- Witch in disguise
- Not traditional courtly love
- Woman woos man and seduces him
- man is left alone
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