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La Belle Dame Sans Merci -- a Poetry Friday post
La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a lyric narrative poem that tells a seemingly simple story in the form of a stylized folk ballad. In the first three stanzas, a speaker asks a woeful knight what's wrong, and the remainder of the poem is the knight's answer. The poem's title is from a medieval poem by Alan Cartier, and is translated as "The beautiful ( Read more... )
