The three-strong images used in the poem, "La Belle Dame sans Merci" consist of the following the death image, the love image, and the fantasy image. The three images display strong feelings the author is expressing through this illusion that he gives us. The illusion we notice in this poem is that we realize it is romantic by absorbing the message between the lines. The first image used that supports the poet's plot is the image of death. This is displayed when John Keats mentions the coldness of the winter that brings death. Winter brings death to nature as the trees lose their leaves, flowers disappear for the season, and greenish of the grass is no longer seen-"The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing."(Line 3-4) This was one of John Keats strong images, and the previous line before the strong death image point lead to that analysis-"Oh, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?"(Line 1-2)
             The second image used that supports the poet's plot is the image love. Love is recognized by the setting change the poet is expressing, "I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful-a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes wild." (Line 9-12). Keats informs the image of love through another image recognized as fantasy as the fantasy is a simple meeting with a lady is expressed by how she is so beautiful she is supernatural, "...a faery's child" (Line 14). There is a passion in the air between the two as her eyes are wild express the passion levity. Her description is one of a fairy figure. "She found me roots of relish sweet" (Line 25), is procrastinated by love as she cooks for him and that displays a woman way of returning a man's love. Keats strong image of love allows the reader to acknowledge that this is a dream. "Her hair was long, her foot was light" (Line 14) describe the love image to be of a fairy-like woman by her description which leads the reader to believe that th...