La Belle dame sans merci

La Belle Dame sans merci is ballad written by well known poet of romantic age John Keats. love and death are intertwined in 'Isabella or the pot of basil','Bright star','the eve of st Agnes' and ' la belle dame sans merci'.
The Fatal women; the woman whom it is destructive to love, like Salome,Lilith and Cleopatra appears in "La Belle Dame sans merci".

The poem opens with an unnamed speaker asking a knight at arms what troubles him. the night tells his strange story. he met a young beautiful woman in the flowering field, who in real is a femme fatal. the knight  came under her influence, perhaps hypnotized by her powerful eyes. he was not able to understand her language, they communicate in other ways. he made a garland of flowers a bracelet and a belt and set her on his warhorse.she found strange food for him. she took him to a cave,where weeping and singing knight fell asleep, he was shaken by terrible dreams of knight , princes and warrior him that he was enslaved by the beautiful lady awakening from the nightmare, the knight found himself  on  the cold  hillside alone and the beautiful lady had disappeared.
  

Yussouf

Yussouf is poem by Jame Russell Lowell. This is poem about Yussouf, who is kind at nature. tribes called him "The Good".


Only a stranger came to Yussouf's tent at night and said that he outcasted. one who needed help and he came to Yussouf for shelter and food.


Yussouf treet him as his honored guest. next day in morning Yussouf gave him gold and told that he has best horse ready for him, and told to escape before his enemies come. stranger fell at feel of Yussouf and said that he is the one who killed Yussouf's son. he was shocked but after that he drew out more gold. he give it to stranger. and said that "here is gold three time more".


Yussouf said that I must give up the thought of revenge. Only then my son will sleep in peace.you have been my guest and i can not kill my guest, and he went off to pray god.

A cup of Tea

Cup of tea is a short story by Katherine Mansfield.This is a story about a rich woman. Her name is Rosemary Fell. in opening of the story we find she goes for the shopping in Paris where she goes to an antique shop. very begging of the story we find rosemary is also like other rich people, but t was not so because when she goes to her car after returning from the antique shop she encounters with a poor girl Miss Smith who asked for money to buy a tea. bit instead of giving her money her took Miss smith to her house. Why she did so ? because she wanted to show her that rich people also have heart. At Rosemary's house she offers Miss smith food and tea. and miss smith tells about her life. When rosemary's husband Philip came to house he disapproves this and to convey her wife he plays a trick. he praises Miss smith's beauty. how women jealousy and insecurity works here. Philip played this trick very well. Rosemary feels jealous and insecure of miss smith and give her some money and send her away. Story ends with a question which is asked by rosemary to her husband that "Am I pretty ?".