What happens in stanzas 11 and 12 of the poem? How does the knight use his imagination in these stanzas to come to an understanding of his plight in the poem la belle dame sans merci

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Alannah Gilmore

8 January, 13:11

What happens in stanzas 11 and 12 of the poem? How does the knight use his imagination in these stanzas to come to an understanding of his plight in the poem la belle dame sans merci

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Konner Salinas · Answer 1

The knight is suffering from the symptoms of tuberculosis. He is showing the symptoms of fatigue ("haggard") and of fevers, chills, and night sweats ("moist and fever-dew").

Explanation:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a French phrase meaning The Lady Without Mercy. The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci written by John Keats is a conversation (in verse) between the poet and a knight who fell in love with a lady but she left him.

It is the lady who lulls the knight to sleep, however. In stanzas nine to eleven, he is engulfed in a dream of kings and princes who are pale (as he is at the beginning of the poem) and who warn him that he has become enslaved by the beautiful lady without mercy.