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Critical appreciation of John Keatss poem La Bella Dame Sans Merci
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Pushpa Rani Roll No. G0560103 M. A. (English) Semester 1st
Keats theme -:
John Keats mater work does not focus or religion ethics, moral, or politics. His verity fast writes about sensation and experiencing the richness life.
Summary Critical Appreciation of John Keatss Poem La Bella Dome Sans Merci
Mercy is a noble virtue of human heart it is a divine gift to mankind it is spontaneous, it is blesses both giver and reciver. It is a quality of god.
The Knight describes about the Beautiful Lady It seemed that she was the daughter of fairy -:
The knight tells to poet about her beauty lady like as fairy child. He meet a lady in the meadows she was extremely beautiful, she had long hair and she worked in graceful manner, her eyes were full of emotional excitement. Knight says that they expressed their lone for each-other.
Now knight says that he prepared some ornaments with flower for that Lady -:
He made a garland for her head and made two bracelets for her wrist. His made a sweet smelling belt for her she looked at him with loving eyes. She song sweetly. Then knight lifted her on his horse which was running fast and all day he gazed her beauty only. He saw hutting brides he, her beauty was looking so grace full and pure. Knight has full from the enjoyment. He sung a song which was the song of fairy. The lady brought food and liquid for him and she expressed her love for him. Beautiful leady gave him a juice of the knight and prepared some delicious food for him. After some time she said something to him, but he did not understand her languages but he just
1. Physical Beauty -:
Physical beauty is a visible form of mental emotional and spiritual beauty its means that physical beauty is outer and inner is physical beauty which destroyed day by day at last it is finished one day because it is an artificial beauty.
2. Emotional Beauty -:
Beauty and create a sores of mercy emotional makes a purity and exact of the heart of person. Emotional is full with mercy. A sense of sympathizing, sharing troubles and causing pain suffering due to selfishness ugliness etc. Emotional make a man more symphy and felling for each others.
3. Mental Beauty -:
A creating a bomb ugly like that inventing flower beautiful inventing medicine beautiful mind is main controller of every thing. Mental position creates of two types thought.
4. Spiritual Beauty-:
It is called the metaphysical beauty spiritual is a like of deeply sense of heart, which derived from the natural sphere; it makes pure and dear to our soul and makes them philosopher. 1. Inner beauty is real beauty not an out side beauty. 2. Merci makes a woman more beautiful and gives her peace of heart and mind. 3. Truth felling and true love are real beauty with out its beauty is useless. This true beauty should be present of both side, interior and exterior then our beauty makes so perfect and tremendous. 1. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. Joy makes a person more beautiful and gives us assign peaceful beauty. 2. Beauty is truth and truth is beauty without truth, Beauty like that body is without soul. True beauty is most important things for human being.
True -:
No fear with truth, because true is noble virtue of beauty it is a natural quality and it never die.
Fear -:
It is attached to life and lie is ugly as it can die any time, lies life is short time. It is very fearful silence who keeps always confusion of person.
Outer Beauty -:
Outer beauty is a fashionable it is a mortal thing and it will destroyed one day.
Inner Beauty -:
Inner beauty is a merciful thing it is a immortal part of god.
The purpose of beauty is to give us a good feel. A good feel which has no bad sting hidden or visible. Keats has staled this idea in his ode on a Grecian urn where he says:1. The sights of gracias are raises in poetics mind a host of association. This mind goes back to the past and he reconstructs in his imagination the details of the picture carved in the figure left even after the laps of ages makes the poet think of the permanence of out as constrated with the transience of human life and sensuous beauty human emotion and human happiness are brief, but art can enshrine them with an ideal beauty that never fades. 2. Like that-: The ode and a Grecian urn is not a dream of unutterable beauty nor is the urn itself the sigh of an impossible bliss beyond morality. 3. Keats worshipped beauty as did the Greeks a thing of beauty is a joy forever. It loneliness increases; it well never pass into nothingness (Endymion). There of Endymion Beauty is truth , truth beauty that is all ye know on earth and all need to know ode on a Grecian urn Theme of ode on a Grecian urn approach to beauty is truth purpose of everything either constructive of destructing. Beauty does its purpose in being constructive and therefore beginning a good feel a beautiful feel. All worlds say to Keats, beauty is truth bold beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all know on earth and all need to know.
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Inspiration by the beauty-: Truth beauty rejoice and good felling and truth beauty makes a woman more charming pure mind, sympathy , good nature and good sense are most important features for a complete is useless and artificial.
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Title
La Bella Dame Sons Merci-: Mean the beautiful lady without mercy. Its the title of a old French count poem by again charier. The lover sings this old song as he is awakening his beloved. A beauty lady but her heart full from cruelty. In the lost moment they were the womans slaves and she deceived him. She was more beauty but sympathy and good sense did not present in her heart. There fore complete beauty was absence in her characters. The poet finally wants to dwell upon the idea of meanings of this world. He seams to suggest that nothing in this world is purposeless. So also beauty has peer poses to serve. Now beauty as it goes with the meaning is this word has to make everything beautiful that it reflection. Physical beauty enclosing ugly ideas like cruelty is hollow, meaning less and even dangerous as in case of La Bella Dams Sons Merci. She is turning all princes and kings into stone and doesnt have compassion so the end result is that she is spreading ugliness in this world which cancels her physical beauty her beauty becomes a curse for every body.
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Bibliography
1. The complete poetical works and poem written by John Keats. Keatss poem -: La Bella Dame Sans Merci which has published in the 10 May 1820. 2. John Keatss ode (ode on A gracias urn) has published in the January 1820. 3. Shakespeares sonnet (Times love) has published in the 1599 or 1609. These books are most important for completing my prefect task so many idea received from these books and got me success. 4. Colvin, Sidney (1917). John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends Critics and AfterFame. London: Macmillan. 5. Brown, Charles Armitage (1937). The Life of John Keats, ed. London: Oxford University Press. 6. Bate, Walter Jackson (1964). John Keats. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 7. Gittings, Robert (1964). The Keats Inheritance. London: Heinemann. 8. Gittings, Robert (1968). John Keats. London: Heinemann. 9. De Almeida, Hermione (1991). Romantic Medicine and John Keats. New York: Oxford University Press. 10. Houghton, Richard (Ed.) (2008). The Life and Letters of John Keats. Read Books.
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