"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" was written in 1819 by John Keats. ...
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a ballad about a knight meeting a beautiful, supernatural woman , his entrallment with this lady and then his despair when she disappears.
A few words about Keats life: he was born in London in 1795. ... Keats died in 1821 in Italy, of tuberculosis, a disease that seemed to run in the family, but although he was young and his poetry only spans five years of his life he managed to write some beautiful poems ans is considered as one of the English Romantic poets of the second generation, with others such as Shelley and Byron. ... These five stanzas could be seen as the perfect love story, the beautiful, perfect-like lady wooing the knight, bringing him food and singing to him, and the knight who offers his Dame gifts: "garland", "bracelet", "fragrant-zone" (stanza five), as if to bind her to him. ... The end of the season represents the end of a dream, a dream which has left the knight in a state of despair, victim of the enthrallment of the Belle Dame. ... The Dame is a supernatural figure, portrayed as a "faerys child" and sings a "faerys song". ...
"Wild eyes" in stanza four symbolises the beauty and the mystery of the Dame. ... In using them instead of ordinary men Keats gives more power to the imagination and therefore more power to the mystical and fantastic aura os it all. ...
The gifts that the Dame gives to the poet: "roots", can be seen as the nourishment of the imagination of the poet which brings us back to the idea of the Dame being the woman-muse who inspires the poet.
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