John Keats is WOKE AF! 1819 Ediiton!

[gnuwalnutknightParticipant 57]

Not really if you consider the entire scope of his life’s work, but after re-reading La Belle Dame Sans Merci after taking the Red Pill, I couldn’t help but laugh.

I just thought I’d post something light hearted.

The Cliff Notes version is that he met some girl, slept with her, and in his dreams all her past lovers who were Turbo Chads told him she was THOT and ruined them. And of course when he woke up, he was in the same situation as what the Kings and Princes told him in his dreams:

“And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.”

[Anonymous 12]

In pre Pussy enslavement times men were a lot more free to write things like this. If you wanted to write something like it now you would have to make the “Beautiful Lady” some kind of victim to make her destructive ways more sympathetic. .

From Wikipedia – “In keeping with the ballad tradition, Keats does not identify his questioner, or the knight, or the destructively beautiful lady. What Keats does not include in his poem contributes as much to it in arousing the reader’s imagination as what he puts into it. La belle dame sans merci, the beautiful lady without pity, is a femme fatale, a Circe-like figure who attracts lovers only to destroy them by her supernatural powers. She destroys because it is her nature to destroy. Keats could have found patterns for his “faery’s child” in folk mythology, classical literature, Renaissance poetry, or the medieval ballad. With a few skillful touches, he creates a woman who is at once beautiful, erotically attractive, fascinating, and deadly.”

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