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| | Enjoying "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", by John Keats |
 | | To Autumn is richly sensual, and contrasts the joys of autumn to the more-poetized joys of spring. |
 | | Keats was dying at the time, and as in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", Keats is probably describing, on one level, his own final illness -- a time of completion, consummation, and peace. |
 | | In "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", Keats seems to be telling us about something that may have happened, or may happen someday, to you. |
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