
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Star Light, Star Bright
In John Keats' Bright Star, the speaker wishes to be unlike the star only in the sense that he does not want to be lonely. "Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night." Here, the speaker is saying that stars are beautiful and marvelled at, but they are out in space all by themselves. He does not want to be by himself. He wants to be lying in bed with his love for the rest of his days. The speaker wants to be "steadfast" in the sense that he is supposedly lying with his love while the poem is happening and wants to stay with his love forever. He is also saying that, even though "earth's human shores" and "new soft fallen mask"(snow) are beautiful, they are nothing compared to his lover. He would rather stay with his lover forever and gaze at her than be alone up in the sky, only appearing at night.
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