bright star, would i were steadfast as thou art Flashcards
‘bright star, would i were as steadfast art thou’
apostrophe
i wish i was as constant as you
‘not in lone splendour hung aloft the night’
i wouldn’t want to be isolated
‘eternal lids apart’
personifies north star - always watching
vigilant and shining forever - doesn’t want to emulate this
eternal vs ephemeral
‘sleepless eremite’
christian worship
isolated yet watching
‘moving waters at their priestlike task’
nature adopts religious responsibilities
‘pure abolition round earth’s human shores’
purification of nature
‘snow upon the mountains and the moors’
beauty of nature
‘no - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable’
doesn’t want to be eternal
no life, no feeling
‘my fair love’s ripening breast’
still physically developing
‘soft fall and swell’
human connection
pulse of life
‘sweet unrest’
oxymoron
if i was to be eternal, i would want it to be in tumult
‘swoon to death’
fall gracefully into death
north star doesn’t feel like humans do
structure
experimental sonnet - looking at a conventional subject for a sonnet from an unconventional standpoint
headlines
beauty of nature
death is natural
the importance of human connection
to live is to feel
to die gracefully is to understand the complexity of the human condition
the ability to experience love is worth dying for
the battle between the ternal and the ephemeral
without feeling, eternity is pointless
