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“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is a ballad—one of the oldest poetic forms in English. Ballads generally use a bouncy rhythm and rhyme scheme to tell a story. Think about an event that has happened to you recently and try to tell it in ballad form.
- John Keats
When John Keats was finishing “La Belle Dame sans Merci” in...
- John Keats
A ballad by the Romantic poet John Keats, who died of tuberculosis shortly after writing it. It tells the story of a knight who falls in love with a fairy woman and wakes up to a nightmare world of death and horror.
La Belle Dame sans Merci —en español: La bella dama sin piedad — es un poema de amor del escritor inglés John Keats (1795-1821), compuesto en 1819; un período oscuro en la vida del poeta, donde la enfermedad, la depresión, y una conflictiva relación con la mujer de su vida, Fanny Brawne, se trasladaron a sus obras.
‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats is a beautiful poem about a fairy who condemns a knight after seducing him with her singing and looks. The first three stanzas introduce the unidentified speaker and the knight.
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called La Belle Dame sans Mercy .
Learn about the plot, metre, and themes of Keats’s famous ballad, inspired by a medieval French poem. The poem tells the story of a knight who falls under the spell of a beautiful but merciless lady in the woods.
When John Keats was finishing “La Belle Dame sans Merci” in the early spring of 1819, he was just weeks away from composing what would become some of English literature’s most sustained and powerful odes. “La Belle Dame,” a compact ballad, is wound as tightly as a fuse.
