In La Belle Dame Sans Merci the Medieval revival reaches its culmination. The Romantic Movement revived an interest in such themes, and Keats succeeds in creating through an atmosphere of medieval romance a mood of psychological terror and desolation. The theme of a fatal, magical love luring a man to his doom is found in folk literature of the middle ages. It is a romantic ballad as much as it deals with the theme of love and also because it depends for its inspiration upon the medieval world of knights and elves, and of weird enchantment.
Frustration in love made him sad, dejected, pale and haggard-looking. This was the reason why he was pale and haggard. Instead of finding himself in the cave of his lady-love, he found himself by the side of the hill. All of them told him that the beautiful lady without mercy had captivated him.
In the dream he saw pale kings and warriors. There the lady expressed her love for him and lulled him to sleep. They both rode on a horseback, till they reached the cave of the fairy. The knight replied that he had met a beautiful lady in the meadows and was fascinated by her looks and beautiful features. Someone or the poet asked the knight why he was so pale and haggard. Once a knight was wandering about in a sad and dejected mood by the side of the lake. The poem narrates a story of a knight's disappointed love with a fairy who is a mysterious lady. In this sense, this poem to some extent is an autobiographical poem. Just as the knight in the poem could not get the love of his beloved fairy, Keats also could not get success in love with Fanny. The poem narrates a sad and tragic love, betrayal of a mortal being who falls in love with a fairy. The title is taken from a medieval French poem by Alain Chartier in which the speaker is mourning his dead mistress. He uses a number of the stylistic features of the ballad, such as simplicity of language, repetition, and the absence of details and supernatural elements.
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