Bright Star / John Keats

“No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,” (Keats 792).  The man wants to be a star.  He wants to be eternal and everlasting.  The first half of the poem describes everything the star does.  It watches everything on the earth but it does not get to touch any of it.  There is a metaphor comparing snow on a mountain to a mask.  The second half of the poem tells what the man actually wants to do.  it is ironic how he spends over half the poem describing something he actually does not want.  The man only wants to be close to his woman forever.  He wants to be eternally hugging her and never have to leave even if it does kill him.