| Front | John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad Explore: x5 V I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She looked at me as she did love, And made sweet moan. |
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| Back | •She enjoys his affection and he recognises this => seemingly reciprocal feeling •by making her something it's an active pursuit of her - does it count as courtly love (upper class man pursuing lower class woman) if the desire is mutual? •Are they recreating a new type of love or is he reviewing courtly love as he makes a more feminine offering? •To make a garland there has to be flowers so one can infer it's summer time while she's there, but this dissipates into winter when she's gone. •The covering of her in flowers- bracelets etc, could represent the restrictive nature of love Keats resented |
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