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La Belle Dame Sans MerciI met a lady in the meads,Well, I may as well add something to this artistic fray. For years, this was my favorite work. I can still remember the day I first saw it. I had wandered into a used bookstore with a friend of mine, we had gone our different ways, and I soon had to call her back to look at this painting hanging on the wall. My words were, "Do you see the look on his face?" I was familiar with Keats' poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, but I had never seen this painting. What I saw on the Knights face was what I had always imagined love to look like when expressed upon a human face. In the poem Keats uses the line "...hath thee in thrall." I don't believe I've ever seen a better visual rendition of "thrall" than this piece.
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
| (Added by Jody Allen Gomez
on 12/19, 9:01pm) |
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