Consider La Belle Dame sans Merci and To Autumn by John Keats Essay

Consider La Belle Dame sans Merci and To fall by John KeatsJohn Keats was born in 1795 and died in 1821. He lived a short carriage ashe suffered from tuberculosis, and died in his early twenties. Keatsis mavin of the great Romantic poets of the early 19th century. Most ofhis poetry was crammed into the ratiocination few years of his life, which iswhy some of his poetrys relate death. He had a great love for nature,which was always included in his poetry in some way.He saw his mother and his brother die of TB when he was younger sowhen he realised he to a fault had the illness he knew what was in store. Hewent to live in Italy because some people believed that thetemperature would help the illness. This is when are where he wrotethe two poems we will be comparing, le belle dams sand merci and toautumn.His poem La Belle Dams sans Merci, meaning A pretty Womanwithout Merci, is about knight f in alling in love with an corruptive fairy.Throughout the poem it describes the knights feelings and what hesees. It ends very openly as we are not sure whether it all reallyhappened or whether it was a dream. The nature of the poem is verydeeply described and flat the people included in the poem are comparedto nature, she found me root of relish sweet.The knight in the poem suffers from symptoms such as, alone and murkily loitering, the paleness is a symptom that is a sign of TB somaybe Keats is saying that he is the knight. Another symptom of tbthat keats would take a leak had to live with is with anguish moist andfever dew, meaning he was in pain and coming down with a fever and isclammy.The atmosphere in La Belle Dame sans Merci changes throughout thepoem. At the beginning it seems very decelerate and depress... ...does not rush, butthe rhythm in La Belle Dame sans Merci is late and heavy and perhapssuggests the weakness of the knight as if he had been robbed of allhis strength.The rhyme of To Autumn is regular and may reflect the regularity ofseasons through out the year. Whereas, as the rhyme of La Belle Damesans Merci is regular yet predictable. The repetition in the lastline of certain stanzas gives the poem a somber tone, on a coldhills side. Finally, in To Autumn there is a positive positioningtowards death, as if it is known and unobjectionable to be a government agency of lifeand as a part of lifes cycle. But in La Belle Dame sans Merci Keatsattitude to death is bitterer and not as acceptable. It is possiblethat the lady in the poem is a metaphor for his illness which issomething which he came across and has stolen the rest of his lifefrom him.