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La Belle Dame San Merci

The poem describes a knight who meets a beautiful woman by a lake. They spend the day together, riding and her singing to him. When he wakes up, she is gone. He is left alone, having become her slave, just as all the kings and warriors he dreamed of were her slaves. The poem uses literary devices like metaphor, alliteration, and repetition to describe the woman's beauty and power over the knight.

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La Belle Dame San Merci

The poem describes a knight who meets a beautiful woman by a lake. They spend the day together, riding and her singing to him. When he wakes up, she is gone. He is left alone, having become her slave, just as all the kings and warriors he dreamed of were her slaves. The poem uses literary devices like metaphor, alliteration, and repetition to describe the woman's beauty and power over the knight.

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LA BELLE DAME SAN MERCI

NUR SYARAH BINTI SHAFFIEE


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General meaning of the poem
The poet meets a knight by a woodland lake in late autumn. The Knight
has been there for a long time, and is evidently dying.

The knight says he met a beautiful, wild-looking woman in a meadow. He
spent time with her, and decked her with flowers. She did not speak, but
looked and sighed as if she loved him. He gave her his horse to ride, and
they rode on it together.

He saw nothing but her, because she leaned over in his face and sang a
mysterious song. She spoke a language he could not understand, but he
was confident she said she loved him. He kissed her to sleep, and fell
asleep himself.

He dreamt of a 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.

Literary devices

Metaphorlily on thy brow (line 9):
and on thy cheeks a fading rose (line 11):

Alliteration Alone and palely loitering (line 2)

Anaphora And there . . . (lines 30, 31, 33, 34)

Repetition Pale
Opinion
In my opinion, since this poem was written towards the
end of his young life , therefore this poem depicts about
his illness that hes suffering and also about his love
relationship with Fanny Brown.

The most basic moral of this story of woe is the dangers
of heady, passionate love in which one can get carried
away and the imminent heart break which follows every
such transient affair. The knight was too impulsive in
falling head over heels for a strange woman, and he had
to pay the price for his impetuosity.

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