La belle dame sans merci Flashcards
The faery child as a tragic villain
‘she looked at me
as she did love’
The Knights Blindness
‘sure in language strange she said
i love thee true’
blind to the strangeness of her affection due to longing for love
The knight as a tragic hero
‘alone and
palely loitering’
The knight as a tragic hero
‘I made a garland
for her head’
The knights blindness
‘her hair was long,
her foot was light and her eyes were wild’
How can it be seen as a projection of keats indulgement with creativity
it describes the poets semi-circular arc of imaginative assent, fulfillment and then decline into reality
quote to show how consumed the knight was
‘and nothing else saw all day long’
a quote to show how the faery child is in control
‘she found me roots of relish sweet’
giev a quote to show how the knight attempts to tame the lady
‘garland for her head’
‘bracelets’
‘I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four’
‘the latest
dream I ever dreamt’
descriptions of her past victims
‘pale kings’
‘death-pale’
‘starved lips’
‘horrid warning gaped wide’
Form/meter
conforms to some aspects of a ballad form but deviates from this also by concluding his stanza’s with Iambic dimeter creating a ‘metric void’ when we expect to see the pattern repeated but we are left with a gap or vacancy in the line - quick reversal of fortune and the knights emptiness of his ending like the ending of a quatrain
