Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Star Night, Star bright (I think that is how it goes)
"Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast.." Wow, quite the image eh? The diction John Keats used in this poem is impeccable. Throughout the entirety of the poem, Keats chose words that work together with the overall theme, being what he would do to be with his lover. By using such soft words when describing the lover, the readers gets a sense of tenderness and heartfelt love that he feels. By sending such signals to the reader, Keats was able to effectively convey to them that the speaker of the poem would even give up being an eternal star just to temporarily be with his wife (or husband?). He/she would give up being able to look at the earth from every view possible for as long as eternity allows to instead sleep with his wife until the love fades away. The message of the poem is what every loved one out there hopes their lover would say about them. Why can't we all have a significant other like John Keats?
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