La Belle Dame Sans Merci
... Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” clearly takes on this form and this essay seeks to discuss how the ballad is interestingly able to tell a story though the use of literary tools. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (The beautiful Lady without mercy) generally tells the story of how a man (likely to be a knight because he rides a “steed”) encounters a woman and is simply enthralled by her beauty, but she leaves him in the end, and how he feels desolate and full of sorrow.