short essay for the la belle dame sans merci by john keats
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Explanation:
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is a poem written by John Keats, which is in the form of a dialogue, and is written in two parts.
The poem starts with the knight in a melancholy mood. He has lost the love of his lady whom he loved very dearly. He liked her company, and he took her for long rides on his horse. He enjoyed every moment in the company of his lady love.
Thinking about the lost love, he walks slowly, without any care of where he is going or where he wants to go. He is thinking about her caring nature and how she fed him with fruits, roots of relish sweet, thereby showering her love.
But one day she left him and made him feel lonely. He felt that she was a fairy and when she disappeared, he could not take it anymore.
We can say that the poet has depicted the knight’s sadness to show that love always is painful and will not last. Another way of interpretation could be that knight dreamt of his love and that on waking up, it vanished.
So, either way, the knight in armor was in melancholy and was exhausted emotionally.