Matron wished to look at the love letter of “Lord Byron” She reached the old lady’s dark house with her husband

1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
By
Ms. R. Vedha, Assistant Professor Of
English, Bon Secours College for
Women, Thanjavur.

2. • Theme: A Passionate Love Poem
La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats

3. Lonely Knight
• When the poem opens
• The Knight was alone
• He feld entirely disappointed

4. The speaker’s Questions
• The Speaker enquired the knight
• The Knight expressed his sad condition

5. Passionate Love
• The Knight met a lady
• Who was like a fairy
• The Knight had taken her in his horse

6. The Happy Journey
• The Knight gave her
• Garland and flower bracelets

7. The Lady’s Love
• The lady feeds
• Sweet herbs and roots

8. Reality
• The lady expressed love signals
• She had taken the knight to the grotto
• The lady shed tears
• As she realized the reality

9. Disappointed knight
• When the knight tried to console
• He can’t touch her
• As she was a fairy
• The lady lulled him to sleep

10. Thank You
• “The heat of passion disappears with time”