LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
JOHN KEATS
Comprehension Questions
Answer the following questions.
1) What is the theme of the poem “La Belle
Dame Sans Merci”?
Ans: Love, death, illusion versus reality, and seduction are the major
themes of the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”.
2) What is the condition of the knight?
Ans: The knight was bothering about what he had dreamt and that would
recognized by his face. He was lonely and loitering by the cold hill sides.
3) Why is the knight asked “o what can ail
thee”?
Ans: The poet finds knight alone and palely loitering and he looks
tired, ill and very sad. So, the knight is asked.
4) What words did the lady utter?
Ans: The lady uttered the words: ‘I love thee true”.
5) What is the lady known as?
Ans: The lady was known as the beautiful lady without mercy.
6) Which season is the poem set in?
Ans: Winter is the season the poem set in.
7) Who is being addressed at the beginning of
the poem?
Ans: The knight is being addressed at the beginning of the poem.
8) Where did the knight meet the lady?
Ans: The knight met the lady in the meadows.
9) Where did the lady take the knight to?
Ans: The lady took the knight to the elfin grot.
10) What did the lady give him in return?
Ans: The lady fed the knight with roots of relish sweet, wild honey and
manna grot.
11) What kind of a poem is “La Belle Dame
Sans Merci”?
Ans: It is a ballad.
12) Who did sing a fairy’s song?
Ans: The beautiful lady sang a fairy’s song.
13) How did the lady look like?
Ans: The lady looked like fairy’s child. She was very beautiful with
long hair, light foot and wild eyes.
14) What did the lady do as they rode the
knight’s steed?
Ans: The lady bends sidelong and sung a fairy’s song to the knight.
15) What do the words “La Belle Dame Sans
Merci” mean?
Ans: The beautiful lady without mercy.
Answer the following questions.
1) How does Keats portray a beautiful lady
without mercy?
Ans: The
lady was exceptionally lovely. She was wonderful to such an extent that one
could undoubtedly figure her as fairy's child. The knight was taken by her
beauty. He experienced passionate feelings for her when he saw her. Her hair
was long, her feet were light. She had wild eyes which were communicating in
the language of love. She could draw in a man's heart and impress him without
any problem. Despite the fact that in various tongue, she could sing love songs
for the person who minded to tune in. The lady could catch the knight by her
beauty, and took him to her elfin grot. There she sobbed and talked her grief
out to him. She made love to him and afterward calmed him asleep.
2) Critically appreciate the poem “La Belle
Dame Sans Merci.”
Ans: The poet unfurls an account of a knight who is pale and
exceptionally sad. He is wondering alone in a cold hill sides in winter. The
poet asks him the explanation of his condition. Immediately, the knight
portrays his hopeless experience. The knight tells the poet that the beauty of
a lady pulled him so that he fell head over heels for her. He offered her
garlands. The beautiful lady then began showing her love for the knight. He
took her on horse-ride, while riding the lady began singing charming melody. She
took him to her elfin grot, offered him sweet roots, honey. It is weird however sweet dish offered to
God. The lady began singing in an unusual language, which he was unable to
understand. Be that as it may, he was especially affected; there he was fallen
asleep.
While sleeping the knight
saw a horrible dream. He saw demise pale, lovelorn kings, princes and warriors.
They began warning the knight to know about that lady. Maybe they needed to
alert him of the approaching threat. Consequently, they advised him to escape
from the grasp of that lovely yet coldblooded lady. At the point when the
knight woke up, he wound up in a similar circumstance. Along these lines, the knight's
dream comes into a reality. Her love was not genuine and it was just affectation.
The poem brings up squandering power of love. It draws out a significant truth
that off-base decision in affection ruins a man and goes to be a reason for
misery and suffering.
3)
Explain the relationship between lady and the knight.
Ans: The knight had met a beautiful lady in the meadows.
She was extremely wonderful. She was lovely to the point that one could
undoubtedly figure her as a fairy's child. The knight was taken by her beauty.
He began to look all starry eyed at her when he saw her. Her hair was long, her
feet were light. She had wild eyes which were communicating in the language of
love. She could draw in the knight's heart and impress him without any problem.
She was singing love songs for him and the knight did not understand her
language. The lady takes the knight to her "elfin grot." When they
were in cave, she cried and murmured noisily. The knight doesn't say why she is
crying, and we never discover – it is left to our creative mind. The knight
kisses her wild eyes multiple times. Once more, her eyes are portrayed as
"wild. The knight to rest soundly in her cave, and he begins to dream
something. He intrudes on himself with a scramble and shouts "Ah! Woe betide!
Since even the memory of the dream is awful as he repeats it to the anonymous
speaker.
4) How does the poet express love in the poem
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci?”
Ans: We
can expect that the woman is very beautiful as it is described in the poem. The
Knight got drawn to the charm and beauty of the lady and began to look all
starry eyed at her. The Knight met the lady in the meadows who as indicated by
him was delightful with a face, her hair was extremely long and her foot was
light. Her eyes have been referenced as wild. He was so overpowered by her
beauty that he made laurel and wristbands for his lady love. Being profoundly
in love with the lady, the Knight followed her to her elfin grot where she slept
hysterically and the Knight helped her by engraving kisses on her eyes. The
lady made a sweet groan and started singing a melodious song subsequently
making the Knight to fall asleep. In his sleep, the Knight longed for the pale
essences of the kings, princes, and warriors pleading for mercy to the lady.
They were completely tortured by the indifference of the lady whom they love.
Abruptly the knight woke up and to his absolute astonishment, he understood
that his envisioned transformed into reality as the lady was not there with him
and he could end up in a similar spot, similar to individuals he longed for,
alone and palely dallying without knowing his objective.
5) Describe the dream of the
knight.
Ans: The Knight followed her to her elfin grot where she slept
hysterically and the Knight helped her by engraving kisses on her eyes. The
lady made a sweet groan and started singing a melodious song subsequently
making the Knight to fall asleep. In his sleep, the Knight longed for the pale
essences of the kings, princes, and warriors pleading for mercy to the lady.
They were completely tortured by the indifference of the lady whom they love.
Abruptly the knight woke up and to his absolute astonishment, he understood
that his envisioned transformed into reality as the lady was not there with him
and he could end up in a similar spot, similar to individuals he longed for,
alone and palely dallying without knowing his objective
6)
What are the signs that show us that the knight is suffering?
Ans: There are numerous signs given by the poet that show us that the knight was suffering. We discover him wandering about on the shore of the lake. He was isolated there. He looked especially drained and exhausted. Indeed, even the common scene that encompasses the knight was not ideal enough. That was a shriveled spot wilted the knight was loitering. He was looking all pale. The rose like tone was blurring from his cheeks and he was a lot of strained and stressed over something, and that could be found in his forehead. It very well may be read from his face that he experienced lost the harmony of his mind and consequently he was unrest.
