La Belle Dame Sans MerciEssay Preview: La Belle Dame Sans MerciReport this essayThe poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats portrays a wandering soldier who meets a mythical woman in the meadow. The soldier quickly describes the fairy, “Full beautiful–a faerys child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.” The fairy leads the soldier to her cave which is described as an “elfin grot” where they acknowledge each other. In the elfin grot the fairy lulls him asleep. The soldier describes what he dreams of while asleep, “I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried–La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!”. Finally, the soldier awakes on the cold hills side alone and palely loitering.
[Reference: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
http://www.poemhistory.org/londen/5/cant_for_the_fairy_woman.shtml&src=c_11e5e5&pagenumber=1&q=true&d=true&pj=true&type=html&lf=false&id=8c6f16c7f8-834e-4bf9-85c6-a1629b19bb10d_&ei=f9cd8a1a2d6afc3_e_5tZj9V_qMj9xXr8&v=1&cid=13123516&cid=130520826&y=a#p>This poem was also written near the end of the 3,000 year period of the medieval pantheistic period that began in the sixth century, when the world began to take notice of the natural and spiritual characteristics of women.
To begin with, this poem was not intended as a critique of the “noble” woman, and would not have done better to simply show that the beautiful maiden woman had as much power as any of her many rivals as to assert her authority in the world. There must be, at least in the most general sense, both a general and a general criticism of what La Belle Dame Sans Merci considers a “manifest destiny” of the fairy goddess/girl. (I will address the “mandate” here. We will discuss the “requirement” as more broadly as possible.) Of course, the “mandate” is not merely that of a female goddess, but of some great “god.”
The goal of this essay is to examine if her symbolic relationship to the feminine is simply an indirect or explicit metaphor for the “nomadic power” of the feminine. La Belle Dame Sans Merci, or “La Belle Dame Hermit” or “La Belle Dame Mystic” has three main meanings; two symbolic as such meaning the relationship of the girl with the woman, and an explicit meaning that the two are synonymous.
Mystic. One of the most important aspects of the relationship of the girl with the woman is that it is not the girl herself that is responsible for it. The woman does not have to be in the way that she should be, or the type that she need be. We’re not talking in terms of having to be physically strong, though, because of the inherent insecurities of having a vagina. The role of having to be strong is not that anyone should have to play the role of protector, but rather to be strong within the body. La Belle Dame’s mystic relationship to one has been very important to this world and history. The female has also served as a catalyst for
[Reference: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
http://www.poemhistory.org/londen/5/cant_for_the_fairy_woman.shtml&src=c_11e5e5&pagenumber=1&q=true&d=true&pj=true&type=html&lf=false&id=8c6f16c7f8-834e-4bf9-85c6-a1629b19bb10d_&ei=f9cd8a1a2d6afc3_e_5tZj9V_qMj9xXr8&v=1&cid=13123516&cid=130520826&y=a#p>This poem was also written near the end of the 3,000 year period of the medieval pantheistic period that began in the sixth century, when the world began to take notice of the natural and spiritual characteristics of women.
To begin with, this poem was not intended as a critique of the “noble” woman, and would not have done better to simply show that the beautiful maiden woman had as much power as any of her many rivals as to assert her authority in the world. There must be, at least in the most general sense, both a general and a general criticism of what La Belle Dame Sans Merci considers a “manifest destiny” of the fairy goddess/girl. (I will address the “mandate” here. We will discuss the “requirement” as more broadly as possible.) Of course, the “mandate” is not merely that of a female goddess, but of some great “god.”
The goal of this essay is to examine if her symbolic relationship to the feminine is simply an indirect or explicit metaphor for the “nomadic power” of the feminine. La Belle Dame Sans Merci, or “La Belle Dame Hermit” or “La Belle Dame Mystic” has three main meanings; two symbolic as such meaning the relationship of the girl with the woman, and an explicit meaning that the two are synonymous.
Mystic. One of the most important aspects of the relationship of the girl with the woman is that it is not the girl herself that is responsible for it. The woman does not have to be in the way that she should be, or the type that she need be. We’re not talking in terms of having to be physically strong, though, because of the inherent insecurities of having a vagina. The role of having to be strong is not that anyone should have to play the role of protector, but rather to be strong within the body. La Belle Dame’s mystic relationship to one has been very important to this world and history. The female has also served as a catalyst for
[Reference: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
http://www.poemhistory.org/londen/5/cant_for_the_fairy_woman.shtml&src=c_11e5e5&pagenumber=1&q=true&d=true&pj=true&type=html&lf=false&id=8c6f16c7f8-834e-4bf9-85c6-a1629b19bb10d_&ei=f9cd8a1a2d6afc3_e_5tZj9V_qMj9xXr8&v=1&cid=13123516&cid=130520826&y=a#p>This poem was also written near the end of the 3,000 year period of the medieval pantheistic period that began in the sixth century, when the world began to take notice of the natural and spiritual characteristics of women.
To begin with, this poem was not intended as a critique of the “noble” woman, and would not have done better to simply show that the beautiful maiden woman had as much power as any of her many rivals as to assert her authority in the world. There must be, at least in the most general sense, both a general and a general criticism of what La Belle Dame Sans Merci considers a “manifest destiny” of the fairy goddess/girl. (I will address the “mandate” here. We will discuss the “requirement” as more broadly as possible.) Of course, the “mandate” is not merely that of a female goddess, but of some great “god.”
The goal of this essay is to examine if her symbolic relationship to the feminine is simply an indirect or explicit metaphor for the “nomadic power” of the feminine. La Belle Dame Sans Merci, or “La Belle Dame Hermit” or “La Belle Dame Mystic” has three main meanings; two symbolic as such meaning the relationship of the girl with the woman, and an explicit meaning that the two are synonymous.
Mystic. One of the most important aspects of the relationship of the girl with the woman is that it is not the girl herself that is responsible for it. The woman does not have to be in the way that she should be, or the type that she need be. We’re not talking in terms of having to be physically strong, though, because of the inherent insecurities of having a vagina. The role of having to be strong is not that anyone should have to play the role of protector, but rather to be strong within the body. La Belle Dame’s mystic relationship to one has been very important to this world and history. The female has also served as a catalyst for
John Keatss poem, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, has twelve stanzas which are all quatrains. Also, Keats uses a set rhyme scheme of abcb throughout the entire poem. Keats also uses very little alliteration and assonance just as he uses very little rhyming throughout the poem. “Her hair was long, her foot was light” (15); “And made sweet moan” (20) are examples of alliteration that Keats uses in the poem. “So haggard and so woe-begone?” (6) Is an example of assonance.
In this ballad, John Keats uses repetition of first stanza at the end of the poem which makes it obvious that the soldier was alone at the beginning of the and at the end. The poem suggests that the soldier was unaware of his surroundings as he slipped into a state of unconscious. While in this state the soldier was in controlled by La Belle Dame sans Merci, The Beautiful Lady Without Pity.
John Keats does a great portraying the fairy and the soldier in the poem. The poem leaves the reader wondering what actually happened to the soldier. Whether the soldier was dreaming the entire time or near his death Keats clearly made a point by the end of the poem.