Do you feel that the poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a conflict between beauty and power? Give reasons for your answer.
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In my opinion the poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is definitely a conflict between beauty and power.
Explanation:
- La Belle Dame sans Merci is one of the most popular poems of the Romantic poet John Keats.
- The poem is typically romantic in nature comprising a mixture of Gothic and Romantic elements.
- It is a poem that exhibits Keats 'negative capability'.
- The very title, which is French, expresses a conflict between beauty and power.
- The title translates," The beautiful lady without mercy". The poem is about an exquisitely beautiful lady who traps her infinite number of lovers with her tale of woe.
- The lady captivates young knights by her beauty. She hypnotises them in her spell of charm.
- When the young lovers are madly in love with her she exerts her power over them.
- She leads them to a cave and leaves them there.
- Deserted and doomed these men become living ghosts.
- The poem thus expresses a conflict between the grand beauty of the lady and how she misuses it as a weapon of power in trapping her unsuspecting lovers.
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