Womanhood in The Eve of St. Agnes and La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Mari

Womanhood in The Eve of St. Agnes and La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Mariana by KeatsIn the two poems Mariana and La Belle Dame Sans Merci and the back down from The Eve of Saint Agnes the poets portray threediverse perceptions of women. The reader distinguishes a woman as atemptress, a woman whom is vulnerable and is dependent on man, and awoman who is nubile and is innocently seductive.La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad, written in 1819. In thisballad, the femme fatale deceives the Wretched Wright she meets. Hefalls in bash with the Belle Dame instantly and is convinced that shetoo is in love with him She lookd at me as she did love. TheTempter is beautiful, a faerys child the Belle Dame looksmagnificent on the outside surface however beauty is only skin deep asthere is an inner wickedness about her. Her eyes were wild and sheenchants the Wretched Wright with faerys songs. Faerys were vista to be from another place. Her love was weird but wonderfulto the Wretched Wright,And sure in language true she said,I love thee true.The Belle Dame is conveyed, as a temptress who knowingly destroysmens hearts, even from reading the title the reader knows this. Thetitle is translated to mean A Beautiful Lady Without Merci thisshows us that she is dangerous to men. I axiom pale kings, and princestoo, the Belle Dame had intentionally starved more men before theWretched Wright form love.This contrasts with The Eve of St. Agnes where the reader observesanother type of temptress, Madeline, in the poem Mariana. Madelineis unknowingly seductive to the weak Porphyro. Porphyro even sings toher,La belle dame sans merciClose to her ear as ... ...ness by Keats, Alone andpalely loitering, we too ascribe this image with gloomy, sufferinglove. As if he is colourless like the Pale warriors, death-pale werethey all. Love had taken away all their cheerful colours along with leave them weak and defenceless.In conclusion through these poems the reader explores the limitationsof society a nd the influence of these restrictions on women. Thereader also observes the power and beauty of love as intimately as theresult it has on people. In all three poems the last line of the poemsand the extract demonstrates this Oh God, that I were dead For ifthy diest, my Love, I know not where to go, And no birds sing. Ithink that in all three endings Keatss and Tennyson some up thedistress caused by love and the penalty of its addiction very praiseworthily when looking into the poems not at first glance.