LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

"La Belle Dame sans Merci" (French meaning, "The Beautiful Lady without Pity") is a ballad written by English poet John Keats. It exists in two versions, with minor differences between them, the original written by Keats in 1819. The title, however, is that of a 15th Century poem penned by Alain Chartier.

With melodic prose, the poem weaves an alluring tapestry which beautifully captures an encounter between an unnamed knight and a mysterious woman who is said to be "a faery's child".

It opens with a description of the knight in a barren landscape, "haggard" and "woe-begone". He tells the reader how he met a beautiful lady whose "eyes were wild"; he set her on his horse and she took him to her "elfin grot", where she "wept, and sigh'd full sore". Falling asleep, the knight had a vision of "pale kings and princes", who cried, "La Belle Dame sans Merci hath thee in thrall!" He awoke to find himself on the same "cold hill's side" after which he continues to wait and "palely loitering".

Despite "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" being short (only twelve stanzas of four lines each), it is choc-a-bloc with enigmas. A straightforward reading suggests that the Belle Dame entraps him, along the lines of tales like Thomas the Rhymer or Tam Lin.

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LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI is part of the MATA HARI Collection.

An artistic showcase of bejewelled interpretations inspired by the captivating and openly flirtatious dance movements pioneered by Dutch-Frisian Exotic Dancer and Courtesan, Mata Hari.

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