LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
JOHN
KEATS
Summary
The poem starts with the poet's question to
the knight, "O what can ail thee". The expression mirrors that the
knight is in afflict or inconvenience and misery. The poet asks him for what
good reason he is sad and wandering alone close to the lake where no green
grass is left and no bird is singing. The season portrayed in the poem is that
of winter. Winter represents isolation, distress, and melancholy. This refers
to the way that the knight-at-arms is lamented.
The poet says again a similar question. He
asks the knight-at-arms for what good reason he is tired and hopeless by all
accounts. In this stanza, he refers to the winter time of year season by
telling that the squirrel is done with gathering its grains and surprisingly
the harvest is additionally done. These two images additionally refer to a
period of depression, coldness, and sorrow.
The poet tells the knight-at-arms that there
is a lily on his brow for example his face is without colour and is pale like a
lily. There are sweat and pain in his forehead that portrays that the
knight-at-arms is wiped out. In the last line, the poet says that the colour of
the knight-at-arms face is blurring rapidly like that of a wilted rose. Till
here the poet is talking and bringing up issues to the knight-at-arms.
The knight-at-arms recounts his story and the
purpose for his condition. Presently in the wake of tuning in to the inquiries
raised by the poet, the knight-at-arms answers that he met a lovely lady in the
meadows. She had long hair, white feet and energetic eyes. She was by all
accounts a fairy’s child.
Later than meeting that lady, the
knight-at-arms falls in love with her. As a token of love, he blessings her a garland
for her head, bracelets and fragrant zone for example a belt comprised of
blossoms for her waist. The lady additionally reacts to his adoration by taking
a gander at him with friendship and making sweet groans. Likely they do
lovemaking and furthermore. In this viewpoint, the fragrant
zone may refer to her female parts which the artist adored and kissed.
Thereafter, he takes her along with him on
his horse and the entire day they spend time with one another. The lady
additionally sings melodies for the
knight-at-arms that appear to him as the fairy songs.
The lady than gifts him tasty and sweet food
to eat including delicious roots, honey of wild honey bees and sweet gum of mana
debris. In spite of the fact that he was unable to comprehend her language, he
can't help thinking that she said: "I love you truly" in her own
language.
The lady at that point takes him to her
"Elfin grot" which implies small and fairy cave. There she weeps
loudly yet the knight-at-arms don't uncover the justification it. Maybe it refers
to the method of communicating her affection. The knight-at-arms at that point
kisses her "wild eyes" and closes them so she may lay down with him.
Here once more, her eyes are portrayed as wild.
The lady quiets or in straightforward words
sends him to sleep. The knight-at-arms in the dream sees perhaps the most
frightening dreams on the slope. Ah! woe betide! is an exclamation that
communicates knight-at-arms' distress and fear.
The knight-at-arms see kings, princes,
warriors who have turned pale and have a dead-like appearance. Every one of
them cautions the knight-at-arms that "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" for
example be careful with that lady since she is without mercy. She is a similar lady
who has driven them the fear destiny.
Seeing
their starved lips which were altogether warning him, the knight-at-arms he
awakens immediately and discovers him alone on the cold hill’s side.
The knight-at-arms says that this is the
motivation behind why he is wandering in isolation along the lake where there
is no grass and when there is no bird to sing, in a hopeless condition, pale
face.
The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, in my views, conveys the message that love, like a flower, is short-loved. The joy is quite short and suffering is forever. It also reflects how beauty can deceive a person and make him fail or suffer. Unlike happy insensibility, the poet here does not celebrate the beauty but rather considers it as something which causes grief and suffering.
