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A Brilliant Disguise - John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci, consists of two separate points of view.
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A Brilliant Disguise John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci, consists of two separate points of view. One comes from the narrator, the other from the knight, who is under torment. The narrative is a fairly simple one; the knight encounters a beautiful lady that leaves him unable to get along with life, once she has left him. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a story that is representative of the real versus the ideal. The lady, who exists solely in the knight's imagination, represents, not only the ideal, but also the knight's refusal to accept the real world, which leads to the destruction of his own life. The first two lines of stanzas I and II begin with the narrator, confused as to what could be wrong with the knight; "O what can ail thee, knight at arms." The second lines change however, giving the reader a description of...
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