Chivalry or Enchantment?

We discussed the two different versions of the John Keats poem in class. Within the two drafts of the poem, "La Belle Dame sans Mercy," we see a distinct shift in the power of the woman in the poem. In the first draft, the knight is immediately overcome with emotion for this woman. He makes her garlands of flowers, then sets her on the horse, where she sings to him. In the second draft of the poem, he first places her on the horse, then makes her garlands after she sings to him.  This small shift at first appears unimportant, but it changes her agency within the rest of the poem. Within the second poem, he seems to be initially trying to help her, and she puts him into a trance with her songs. However, in the first version, he is immediately entranced and the effect of putting her on the horse becomes merely symbolic of the pedestal he has already placed her on. He places her above himself literally to show how he is entranced by her symbolically.  The line, "And nothing else saw all day long," shows that his whole world has become focused and consumed by her. Again, the placement of this stanza changes the context within the poem in the same way.  At the end of the poem, the first draft states "And there she lulled me asleep." This again gives the woman more agency. She makes him sleep, rather than in the second version where "we slumber'd on the moss." This gives her less power over him, and makes her less ethereal and more real.