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Original poem reprinted online here: "Bright Star" by John Keats Originally read: April 19, 2013 More information about the Poet: John Keats This is another poem that not only has a lot of scholarship on it, but also is the title of his biographical movie.  What can I add to this?  Nothing much really.  I decided in these situations, I'll just write down the notes I wrote, and explain them the best I can. The first thing I noticed with this poem is the sonnet form -- 14 lines and it is Elizabethan -- sort of.  The first half on the poem is the personification of the bright star where the speaker envies the qualities of the "bright star" (symbol for whatever you want to make it to be).  However, the volta in this poem occurs in line nine with "No, yet still steadfast, still unchangeable."  It's not a shift in topic, but in tone, then the next line shifts the topic to "earthly delights." I looked up words I didn't know like "Abluti...