Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art Themes

The clearest picture we get of love in "Bright Star" comes after line 9, when the speaker describes how he wishes he could spend all eternity with his head resting on his "fair love's ripening brea...

The theme of loyalty is a very important one in "Bright Star," because it is so closely wrapped up with the idea of "stedfastness," the quality that the speaker admires most about the star. It quic...

Isolation is a very important theme in "Bright Star" because it is the deal-breaker. How so? Well, in the first line, the speaker says he wants to be like a star. But then, in the second line, he c...

Keats's "Bright Star" gives us the perspective of somebody on earth looking up at a single, extremely special star in the heavens. This is the North Star, the one star that stays fixed in its place...

The speaker of Keats's "Bright Star" takes a very mixed attitude toward nature. At the beginning of the poem, he says that he wants to be like a part of the natural world: the Bright Star. But the...