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PLEASE ANSWER I NEED HELP

Why is the knight in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" so pale and ill?
He has missed the harvest season and has no place to live.He has been emotionally enslaved by the woman.The woman he met has physically injured him with a sword.The other kings and princes have taken the lady away from him.

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after they were through smooching, she "lulled" him to sleep, and he had a nightmare about all the knights and kings and princes that the woman had previously seduced – they were all dead. And then he woke up, alone, on the side of a hill somewhere. Hopefully this helped:)

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