Question

How do the poetic elements used in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" add to its theme?

Answer 1

Explanation:

. "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a ballad written by John Keats in 1819 and since it is written in one of the oldest poetic forms, it also has many poetic elements.

• Some of the poetic elements in this ballad are metaphors, smiles, alliteration, irony, assonance, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia and allusions.

We can find two major conflicts in the poem and poetic elements are making them more exciting and they are rising the poem on its higher level.

There is a lot of repetitions of letters s and r, f and s and w, f and s which is making the alliteration and assonance.

• For example, the irony is used between women and men's connection. The knight is thinking that the woman is giving him back the love and desire but readers are knowing that is now true because of the atmosphere in the poem.

We can see that those poetic elements are leading the readers through the main theme and point of the poem.