La Belle Dame

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Written in 1819 (4 years before, the Napoleon’s army had fallen at the Battle of Waterloo)
Can be seen in the exploration of fellow poet William Colderidge
This poem seals Keat’s pact with literary immortality
Much inspired from William Wordsworth

Question 2

The title

Answer 2

It’s in french: The beautiful lady without mercy’
Alludes to the work of Alain Chartier. Keats associated the prom from the start with medieval romances

Question 3

O what can Ali thee, knight at arms,

Question 4

I met a lady in the meads,

Full beautiful, a faery’s child

Question 5

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone

Question 6

I set her on my packing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long

Question 7

She lullèd me asleep

Question 8

I sae pale kings and princes too
Pale warriors, death pale were they al

Question 9

‘And no birds sing’ (First stanza) ‘And no birds sing’ (Last stanza)

Question 10

Structure