La Belle Dame Sans Merci Keats

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Keats was the poet

1. of the supernatural
2. with a keen sense of social injustices
3. most taken with childhood innocense
4. drawing heavily from sensory experience

Most remarkable: as a medical apprentice he knew

1. how to take care of his brother
2. How to treat his own illness
3. He already knew he was dying when he wrote his best poems
4. He wrote about beauty when he knew he was dying

Try it yourself

Alone or in pairs.

Reread La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Anwer the question. 

Use a dictionary where necessary.

What role does beauty play in this poem?

What is the order of the poem? 

fruitfulness

harvest

dusk & empty fields

What is different about Autumn in the Ode compared to La Belle Dame