La belle same sans Merci written in 1819 depicts a knight who has seduced and abandoned by fairy told in form of dialogue. The poem talks about the experience of loving dangerously and fully, or remaining loyal to that love despite warnings and of suffering the living death of betrayal at the end of the poem ,the knight remains on a cold Hill's side,a world without happiness or duty,waiting for his love to return.
Poem showcases journey of knight and his emotional incompleteness.the title itself suggest that this poem talks about a beautiful lady without pity. This poem is about knight who is suffering at the cold Hill's sight.in the first three stanza narrator continuously questions the knight on what had happened to him.out of extreme pain knight does not feel like answering the speaker. However from the forth stanza we have shift in narration as the knight starts explaining his extreme physical and mental sickness.The poem includes mythology and structure of midial romance. It is supposed love story between the knight and the fairy.
The knight from the forth stanza talks about how he met the fairy who was extremely beautiful. He spent quality time with her.they later on moved to the great love and mad love. After knight sleep and in sleep the knight saw horrible dream where in he sobed, kings, princess horious . All of them betrayed by the fairy. This is how knight came across the horrible nature of fairy and when he got up from the sleep he found himself in the same situation as others. This poem heavily depends upon the folklore of the fairy and the soldier. It is believed that John Keats himself was unsuccessful in marrying his fiancee because of certain reasons and the knight in a way represents a bit of Keats.
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