La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a poem written in 1819 by John Keats, one of the most talented amongst the famous English poets. John Keats, born into a rather poor family, is mostly known to be a romantic poem, who let in his poems a greater part to imagination, dream and feelings (three items who are often linked) than to reality, reason or common sense. In this precise poem, one can see that, as a matter of fact, supernatural, dreams, and a kind of outer world (different from the one we know) are extremely present. Keats took the title and the general plot of his poem to the French medieval author, Alain Chartier.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a really catchy poem and its verses are really and amazingly easy to remember, this is surely due to its nature. Indeed John Keats is here imitating the popular ballad, he uses rather simple words and sentences without obvious underlying meanings. It is composed of twelve stanzas. The first three verses of each stanza have generally four feet......

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Title: La Belle
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