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"How successfully does Keats address the theme of love and loss in La Belle Dame Sans Merci" The poem shows us how powerful a beautiful woman can be, luring men away because of their lust and desire. It tells us of the power of "Amour" against "Armour", how a knight can be enchanted by the love and beauty of a woman and be made useless. The knight is lead by his desire rather than reason, he is intoxicated by the woman who does as she pleases with him. In the poem the first speaker finds a lonely knight who tells him the story of "wild" lady in the meads, which the knight met. "Her eyes were wild", her wildness makes her seem to be uncivilised and uncontrollable, with no restraint. She has elements of supernatural linked to her, described by the knight as, "a faery's child" living in her...

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