John Keats is a great British poet. He wrote many popular poems. La Belle Dame sans Merci is a ballad written in 1819. In this ballad, the knight is deceived by the woman he meets. He immediately falls in love with this woman and is convinced that she is in love with him too. The woman makes the knight fall in love by making herself beautiful. The woman tricks the knight into trusting her and then when she takes him to her cave, she breaks his heart by leaving him after the knight wakes up from a nightmare. The first stanza of this ballad describes the knight as lonely in the desert. A Alone and palely loitering. @ The knight is alone and wanders on his horse. AE no birds sing. @ In this sentence he describes his sadness because birdsong is associated with happiness and birds don't sing. So haggard and so sad? The squirrel's barn is full and the harvest is finished. In this quote the knight is upset because everything is going as it should go, the barn is full and the harvest is finished. This is why the knight is also sad and goes around on his horse. In the next stanza, the knight is described as exhausted in appearance and distressed. “And even on your cheeks a fading rose quickly withers.” The color of his skin is fading and he is dying. I met a lady in the meadows Bellissima, the daughter of a fairy. His hair was long, his foot was light, and his eyes were wild. In this stanza, the meeting of the knights...