Unit 7. Post 4.

Bright Star by John Keats.

I might not be getting the full picture from this poem but I am going to throw this at the wall and what sticks is what sticks. I believe the image of the star in the sky is a metaphor for the speaker admiring his love from a distance or that the speaker is never going to be able to reach or achieve his love. Looking at the lifespan of the author and it being from 1795-1821, class difference might have had some impact on the speaker's ability of loving his crush. The speaker seems to be longing or yearning for something more than admiration from a distance but he knows that he will never be really capable of achieving her love in response to his.

"The moving waters at their priestlike task of pure ablution round earth's human shores" (Keats).

Certainly many people today secretly have someone that they admire from a distance but they feel that they can never really express their feelings openly and publicly for the fear of public humiliation or some form of anguish. I am one of these people. The thing that I am taking away from this poem has really noting to do with the poem itself. The lesson that I encourage readers to take is that there is never just one right person out there and that any goal has the possibility of being achievable.