The late nineteenth century Europe experienced the eruption of Romanticism with other elements such as realism and symbolism. The Idea of Romanticism is it focuses on how individual’s feeling and emotion toward others. John Keats and Anton Chekhov are poet and writer during the period of Romanticism. La Belle Dame sans Merci and The Lady with the Dog are two literature pieces characterized women in the nineteenth century to be sensual, attraction, temptation and the idea of some ambiguities, having readers draw the big picture which can shape the importance of sensuality.

     La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats emphasizes the ideas of sensual, beauty and emotion of the woman in the story. John Keats creates the knight as depress individual who escapes from the reality and trapped in his own fantasy world. At the beginning of the poem, setting of the poem is gloomy, the author uses words such as alone, palely. Also in third stanza, Lily which symbolize death where at the end of the poem, Kight returns back to reality and he is even more depressed. He indicates the woman he met as a “fairy woman, and words she tells, the song she sings are interpret by himself.  “I met a lady in the meads, full beautiful, a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild.” (Keats 828) At first, through Keats’s description, Knight has portrait this woman to be a beautiful and attractive individual. The idea of sensuality and temptation start to kick in. “She took me to her elfin grot And there she wept and sighted full sore…With kisses four.” (Keats 829) the quote shows his imagination, where he believes he had a close emotional relationship with the woman with some ambiguity elements involved.

The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov also shares the idea of sensuality, attraction, temptation. Chekhov describes Anna as sensual individual who falls in love with Dmitri after a date. “He looked steadily at her and suddenly took her in his arms and kissed her lips…And they walked off together, very quickly.” (Chekhov 1526) this quote is an example of sensuality of Anna, she doesn’t really know Dmitri well and had affair with him because of the loneliness that her husband is not with her. “I’ve been so unhappy…why did you come?” (Chekhov 1533) this quote shows the emotional side of Anna, when Dmitri visits her hometown and wants to be with her. She’s willing to go back to Yalta to see Dmitri and betray her husband.

Both “fairy woman” and Anna from La Belle Dame sans Merci and The Lady with the Dog are been portrait mainly as sensual and emotion individual during the era of romanticism of the nineteenth century. And yet, most of the literary pieces during the nineteenth century have the idea of ambiguity that can confuse the readers and misdirect the true meaning of the story.