| Front | John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad Explore: x3 I O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and paley loitering? The sedge was withered from the lake, And no birds sing. |
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| Back | •opens the narrative at a 'sedge' - could resemble the Garden of Eden - esp as the positive tone deteriorates after she feeds him. Though the epiphereal imagery is more potent than this. •'And no birds sing' is the last line of the poem too - cyclical structure - dark and desolate mimicks loss of life => natural imagery •Pathetic fallacy of the surroundings reflecting the suffering of the second speaker |
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