Concetti Chiave
- The painting "La belle dame sans mercy" by J.W. Waterhouse is connected to Keats' poem of the same name.
- The composition of the painting is divided into three parts: background, middle ground, and foreground.
- The background features a dark, tree-filled landscape with straight branches and a distant lake.
- In the middle ground, the lady's bright face contrasts with the knight's dark face, symbolizing attraction and allure.
- The lady embodies a positive ideal and represents themes of death, fascination, and perhaps Keats' own love or inspiration struggles.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY by J.W.WATERHOUSE
This picture can be connected to the poem “La belle dame sans mercy” by Keats.
This picture can be divided into three parts:
In the background you can see many trees. In this part the dark colours and the straight lines of the branches of the trees dominate. You can see also a lake In distance.
In the middle ground you can see the two protagonists: the lady and the knight. The lady’s face is bright, while the knight's face is dark. In this part also the woman’s dress dominates. She attracts the knight with her eyes.
She represents the positive ideal of life; she is the death which exercises a morbid fascination on young people; perhaps she represents Keats’ frustrated love for a girl, or a lack of the poet’s inspiration. In the foreground you can see the nature with a shrub, the lady’s foot.
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