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.
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