BRIGHT STAR BY JOHN KEAT<\/p>\n
Begin by describing the content or “story” of the poem. Tell what the poem is about. Next describe the tone the speaker takes towards the material noting any figurative language in the poem. After this identify the metrical features of the poem leading to an identification of the form, if possible. Finally, evaluate the poem. Is this a successful poem? Why or why not?<\/p>\n
Brightstar by John Keat
\nBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art\u2014
\nNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night
\nAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,
\nLike nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
\nThe moving waters at their priestlike task
\nOf pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
\nOr gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
\nOf snow upon the mountains and the moors\u2014
\nNo\u2014yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
\nPillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
\nTo feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
\nAwake for ever in a sweet unrest,
\nStill, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
\nAnd so live ever\u2014or else swoon to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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