Love is blind and however pure it may be, it is never immortal. La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Frankie et Johnny are both tragic love poems where a lover dies. However, the circumstances and conditions the two lovers found themselves in, as well as the use of descriptive language were radically different. Both poems presented a tragic love story with selfish reasons making it worse. In La Belle Dame, a knight errant and a beautiful fairy were lovers, but the fairy had to abandon the knight errant for unspeakable reasons. So the knight was left all alone, wandering through the forest, either waiting for his death or hoping that the fairy would return. At the end of the poem, the reasons for the knight's depression and illness are revealed: he was a victim of betrayal and abandonment. However, the fairy was so beautiful and enigmatic that the knight remained captivated and continued to desire her. Although the Fairy Lady seems like the classic self-centered, attention-seeking vixen who leads innocent young men on and ultimately abandons them, if you pay closer attention to how her character has been portrayed, there's a lot more to see . his character than he lets it appear. For example, throughout the poem she was subtly described as having sad, wild eyes, sad sighs, and a painful look. We might assume that the fairy is as unhappy as her lovers were, perhaps even worse. We could theorize that the fairy is bound and cursed by fate to walk the earth for eternity only to fall in love with mortals over and over again, only to eventually have to leave them because they grow old while she stays young. Whereas, in the poem Frankie and Johnny, although the setting and situation is in the middle of the paper, each line of the poem helps to move the story forward. It is also simpler and readers can easily see the character of the characters through the surface, as well as the author's intentions in writing this poem. La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Frankie and Johnny both tell the story of love, pain and betrayal. where the main events were agitated and aggravated because of a lover's selfish reasons. Despite their many differences, such as the setting and circumstances the lovers found themselves in, as well as the use of descriptive language and the focus of the poem, they are still both beautiful tragic poems that also convey the honest feelings of the characters. like the authors' messages. This love is not blind, it actually sees more. But because he sees more, he wants to see less. It's the kind of love that never outlasts time or death.