Talk:La Belle Dame sans Merci

message: I think the section connecting "The Beldam" in Coraline to this poem is a stretch. Beldam is an archaic, and once popular, word meaning "an old woman. a malicious and ugly woman, especially an old one; a witch" according to Google's dictionary; the Beldam hits all those criteria. Since Coraline is no knight, and the Beldam is not a fairy or a romantic partner for her, I really think this connection is tenuous.
192.42.89.2 (talk) 02:43, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Coraline?

message: La Belle Dame sans Merci is actually another name for opium. The writer was, at the time, addicted to opium. So the poem is simply a metaphor for the drug. The man wants to keep seeing the fairy, so he can have a wonderful time, but he knows he will end up in a depressing state if he does.
yea but, no but, yea but, no but,yea but, no but,yea but, no but,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.42.153 (talk) 19:54, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I heard it was to do with a different form of sin  -  involving STD's. Valetude (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

text: To the unnamed editor above: Try this line from Keats' Ode to a Nightingale. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk Valetude (talk) 23:07, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: opium?

message: "More recent feminist commentators have suggested that the knight in fact raped the Belle Dame, and is being justly punished"
Where did you get this from? There is no actual basis or reference for this whatsoever. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Badger23 (talk • contribs) 15:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feminist Rape Theory!!! 

message: Keat was suffering from TB when he wrote this poem and knew he was going to die and his description of the knight represents himself and his own illness, so words like peel and fever reflect his systoms.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.217.150 (talk) 12:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparing La belle dame sans merci with j keats when he wrote it 

message: Many of the other articles on Keats' poems have the entire poem, or at least a link to it. Suggest the same happen here. (Forgive me, I'm too caught up in other things to do that myself at the moment.) Softlavender (talk) 03:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not post the poem itself in the article, or a link to it? 

message: In Harold Bloom's 'How to Read and Why' he states on page 136 "Keats's "Beautiful Lady Without Pity" takes its title from a French Midieval poem..." Perhaps we should mention that the title was not origionally his.Mrathel (talk) 00:58, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Origional French Poem

message: This statement was deleted as "trivia".
:In The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny, the character Corwin encounters a beautiful woman with wild eyes. He dines with her as Chaos advances, and then refuses her offer to wile away the few remaining hours. He closes her eyes "with kisses four", and Zelazny notes that the "the sedge was not withered, but he was right about the no birds."
Is a mention of a lesser-known Genesis song more important than one of the most influential works of the modern fantasy canon? Snuppy 20:48, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: None of the trivia is appropriate. References in later works is not encyclopedic. Ottava Rima (talk) 21:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the quick reply. Edited appropriately. Snuppy 21:05, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Noted in Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning series

message: What does the expression “a belle dame sans merci” mean? What does it mean when a thing, as opposed to a person, is called “a belle dame sans merci”? Felicity4711 (talk) 01:18, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expression/Idiom 

message: The 'analysis' section of this page reads like someone's personal research paper, not like an encyclopedic article. It needs some serious work and some sources.
2601:6:7780:725:61EA:9F46:E7FA:E83F (talk) 02:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I am removing the section and its contents. An analysis section can be re-added later when someone can provide at least one secondary source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baltakatei (talk • contribs) 23:18, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I added references where I could and added a reference to an analysis by an art historian (?) Robyn Cooper. His article contains a synopsis interpreting the events of the poem. I included a shortened version of the synopsis. I still don't think I am qualified to add an analysis section. I think the varied number of books, paintings, and music should be included as evidence of the poem's notability. If anyone wants to add references, I encourage them to use the named-list at the end of the article source code instead of in-line references. Baltakatei (talk) 07:40, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor wording 

message: The article says “It exists in two versions, with minor differences between them.”, but has no further mention of the other version, which can be found at s:La_Belle_Dame_sans_Merci#Revised_Version. --AVRS (talk) 15:22, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revised version