Mr. Hinton
English Lit
13 June 2012
La Belle madam sans Merci by tin can Keats
John Keats was a young, up and coming inspirational poet whose behavior ended way too soon.
He evoked images as if you, the reader, were there to see it in person. He died from tuberculosis
and I think that what he is describing in the verse form La belle Dame sans Merci is his life, love of
Fanny, his fiance, and his love of beauty and his poetry disappearing. He had a vivid
imagination and that is also what we see in the poem, La Belle dame sans Merci as he explains
the story of a sawbuck who has lost everything that he loved. This interpretation is one where Keats
sees himself as the knight and the lady is what he will be lo blether upon his death.
The poem begins with a passerby seeing the knight wondering aimlessly as if he is looking
for something. We can tell by the words of the passer by that it is late autumn or early winter
sedge has witherd from the lake and no birds sing as he asks the knight what could make him
so pale and feverish, possibly sick or near death. รข€¦lily on thy brow, cheeks a fading rose and
fast withereth.. The first three stanzas overcompensate in this manner as the passer by questions the
knight about his forlorn condition.
The knight starts to respond in the twenty-five percent stanza explaining that it was a woman that he met
earlier she was very beautiful, a fairys child as he recalls. Keats was comparing his love of
beauty, Fanny, his work and his life to the beautiful lady who in the end leaves him insufficiencying
more. Keats wants more than he will come out in this life. He wants to live life to the fullest, to marry
the woman that he loves and he wants to continue to write but that is a dream that will go unlived
due to his death from tuberculosis. This could possibly mean that she had an ethereal beauty
about her and was not of his human but being overtaken by her beauty he didnt...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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