"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" means "the beautiful woman without mercy." This is the title of one of Keats many solid poems. In this poem, the poet meets a knight by a woodland lake in late autumn. However, the knight did not respond. The only form of respone the poet recieved was a rambling story of one beautiful woman. The knight had been there for a long time, and is evidently dying from a "fever dew" which is the sweat of sickness from turboucious. The knight proceedes to say he "met a lady in the meads"; in the meadow. This mystery woman was describe as beautiful, and wild-looking.
To show how he felt for her, the knight showdered the beautiful woman with flowers. Yet, she did not speak, but looked and sighed as if she loved him. She spoke a language he could not understand, but he was confident she said she loved him. Sitting her apon his horse to ride, the knight walked along side, gazing at the woman he loves. He saw nothing but her, because she leaned over him and sang a mysterious song. He kissed her to sleep, and fell asleep along side her.
That night, he dreamt of host of kings, princes, and warriors, all pale as death. They shouted a terrible warning,they were the woman's slaves. And now he was her slave, too. Awakening, the woman was gone, and the knight was left on the cold hillside. Alone and dying. However, one could say they would take the one moment of pure love over a lifetime of none.
"Sidelong" means sideways. A "fragrant zone" is a flower belt. "Elfin" means "pertaining to the elves", or the fairy world. A "grot" is of course a grotto. "Betide" means "happen", and "woe betide" is a more romantical version of the contemporary expression "---- happens". "Gloam" means gloom. A "thrall" is an abject slave.
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