| Front | John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad Explore: x4 XI I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill's side, |
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| Back | •'starved' contrasts with appetite imagery => warning social boundaries are stopping us from being fulfilled -Or pervading social boundaries leaves us starved? -Is sexual love toxic? Or are humans too greedy + thus always dissatisfied? -Is this even realistic to human relationships at all given knight + fairy mythical union -Because she's a fairy and not a woman, could be a metaphor for desire of something else? |
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