| Front | John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad Explore: x2 VIII She took me to her elfin grot, And there she wept and sighed full sore, And there I shut her wild wild eyes With kisses four. |
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| Back | •Why 'wept'? Does she need healing and think sex is the solution? Not adequately fulfiling if she presumably has taken lots of men. Or is it just manipulation so she can take advantage of him, playing on masculine sympathies for damsels in distress? •'kisses four' euphemism for sex? |
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