Bright Star Flashcards
Info about bright star
The poem is a sonnet. John Keats was a romantic poem, love and nature. 
Themes
eternal love, purity, steadfastness, sensuality, and life vs death.
Title of the poem
The poem for personifies a star. John Keats personifies to start as stars of six points in the sky and status use stars to measure the position on the ocean, this could symbolise constancy and steadiness.
“Bright star! Would I was steadfast as thou art”
“ Bright star! Would I”-Assonance between the eyes sounds in bright star and I, shows he wants to become the star.
“Steadfast”-Symbols of constancy unsteadiness steady
“As thou art” is a simile 
“With eternal lids apart”
Metaphor, Vivid imagery of a star being compared to a human eye that never shuts its eyes
“Eremite”
Religious connotations, a hermit is someone who lives in the wild on the own, comparing the star to someone who lives alone. So Keats is basically saying that although a star is beautiful and steady it is always on its own and isolated even though it lives for eternity. 
No;
In ninth line. Change of tone to more intimate from here on. Conclude he wants to be close to his lover, resting on her chest and not like a star.
“Awake forever in a sweet unrest”
Being alive forever would be uncomfortable. “Sweet unrest” is an oxymoron.
“Still, still to hear her”
Repeat adjective still. Comma In the middle is a caesura. Second “still” could reinforce that being together makes their life constant.
“Death.”
Poem ends in the word death. Shows Keith was aware of death and acceptance of reality, and his fragile fancity.
rhyme scheme
ABAB rhyme scheme.Until last two rhymes where it is an AA rhyme scheme. This can express the natural flow of his love for his partner, and when the rhyme scheme changes at the end shows the finality and unchanging of death.
