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LA BELLA DAME SANS MERCI, Alternative English XII

 

LA BELLA DAME SANS MERCI:

 

1.       Which season is the poem set in? (2016, 19)

Ans- The poem was set in the Autumn season.

2.       Where did the knight meet the lady? (2016, 19)

Ans- The knight met the lady in the meadows.

3.       What kind of a poem is “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”?

Ans- The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad.

4.       Who are the opening lines of La Belle Dame Sans Merci addresses to?( 2017)

Ans- The opening lines addressed to the knight.

5.       Whom did the knight meet? (2017)

Ans-  The knight met a beautiful lady.

6.       What did the beautiful lady sing for the knight at arms? (2018)

Ans- The beautiful lady sang a faery’s song for the knight at arms.

7.       Who did the knight see in his dream? (2016)

Ans- The knight saw some death pale looking kings, prince and warriors. They warned the knight with their starving lips that the knight was in thrall of the beautiful lady without mercy.

8.       What did the lady give to the knight at Arms? (2017,18,19)/ What did the lady give him in return?

Ans- The knight says that the fairy lady found him tasty roots, honey, and manna to eat (“of relish sweet”). Manna is the food that the Jewish scriptures say that the Israelites ate when they were wandering around the desert after Moses freed them from slavery in Egypt.

9.       Describe the dream of the knight. ( 2017)

Ans- The beautiful lady took the knight to her elfin grot and there she spoke her grief out to the knight. The knight consoled her and caressed her. She then lulled him asleep. There in the lady’s cave, the knight had a strange dream. He saw a number of kings, princes and warriors in his dream. All of them were looking death pale. With their gnarled lips, their faces seemed horrible to look at. All of them were warning the knight that he had fallen in the trap of the beautiful lady who had no mercy.

 

 

10.   Describe the experience of the knight in ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. (2016, 2019)

Ans- The knight is enraptured by the beauty of a woman who he meets in the wilderness. She leads him to a cave and lulls him to sleep, saying she loves him. However the knight sees a dream in which earlier victims of the lady warn him that he has been bewitched by the lady who is devoid of any pity. He sees pale kings, prince and warriors who are tormented by the indifference of the lady. When he wakes up he finds that the lady has disappeared and he is forced to loiter aimlessly with the anguish of unrequited loved.

11.   I saw their starved lips in the gloam,

With horrid warning gaped wide

And I awoke and found me here,

On the cold hill’s side,   (2016, 18,19)

 

Ans- The lines are taken from the poem La Bella Dame Sans Merci written by John Keats. This line are from the 11th stanza.

              Here in the line the knight is led to a cave and lulled to sleep by a beautiful lady. In his dreams he sees pale kings, princes and warriors who are tormented by the indifference of the lady have disappeared and he is forced to walk slowly aimlessly with the anguish of unrequited love. He thus realizes that his dream was a prediction of things to come.

 

12.   And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge has wither’d from the lake

And no birds sing. (2017)

 

Ans- The lines are taken from the poem La Bella Dame Sans Merci written by John Keats. This line are from the 12th i.e. the last stanza.

              The lines mean that the knight has been bewitched by a beautiful lady who had professed her love, and gave him sweet roots, wild honey and manna dew. But she was a lady without mercy who vanished without fulfilling the promise of love. The chill has withered the sedge from the lake and no birds are singing. But the knight is forced to loiter all alone, aimlessly with the burden of unrequited love.

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