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“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” recreates a medieval folk form, the ballad, whose quatrain we recognize by its alternation of tetrameter lines with trimeter, and its rhymes in the second and fourth lines.
La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee, Oil on canvas, courtesy Bristol Museum and Art Gallery La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee If ever a woman seduced, if ever a man were ...
Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost ...
“Haggard and woe-begone,” just like the knight in Keats’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci. With "lily on the brow, anguish moist and fever dew," and a "fading, withering rose on his cheeks ...
Inspired by the Poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" follows the accounts of a dying man (Morgan Holgate) who encountered a mysterious woman (Maribel James-Corral) in the woods.