Summary of La belle Dame sans merci

A knight falls in love with a beautiful (almost elf/fairy like) woman with whom he becomes obsessed. He forgets about everything except her; he is literally shot through the heart with Cupid's arrow. From this shot, he dies after her kiss has literally put him into a coma. The reader is left to assume some of the details, The bottom line, however, is he will never live again and she has been the cause of his demise.