A comparison between Keats

There is a definite likeness between these poems, as they are all thematically linked. An example of this is that in each, there is some sort of conflict between man and natures representations i.e. the knight and the faery, the boy and the rat, and also the man and the deer. Beyond the words of the poem, an on-going interaction between man and nature can be found. In ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, this …

…correspondence between man and nature as being poor, as man and nature are both trying to win over one another. But Hughes has shown that more recently, nature is trying to get back to man, and man to nature, as in this day and age we are more conscientious of our actions and their effects on nature, and are tying to once again live in harmony to nature, and therefore have a good spiritual correspondence.