Both poets praise the star’s glorified status. John Keats’s sonnet refers to the start as a “lone splendor” and an “Eremite” which underlines the star’s solitude. Robert Frost alludes to the Eremite star in Keats’s poem and grants the star its loftiness, which emphasizes the star’s nobility, pride, and greatness. The star’s solitude and nobility underlines its elevated status. Like a hero, it is alone as it stands against the world in solitude yet it still is given the characteristics of a proud and righteous being. With the use of personification, the steadfast star is contrasted with the ever changing world. The star is personified in Keats’s sonnet, given the ability of “watching” the world “patiently,” and “sleep

Though both Keats and Frost use allusions, they emphasize different thoughts.

The contrast between the changing world below the valiant star and the static, unchanging star who watches the world below underline the theme of both pieces. Keats’ star watches the earth change constantly being reborn and cleansed, which only amplifies his desire to be steadfast as the star is to the world to his lover. This contrast in the Keats’s sonnet emphasizes his desire to be constantly forever in that moment when he is “pillowed upon” his “fair love’s ripening breast.” He yearns to feel forever her soft breathes and “awake forever in sweet unrest.” So in the heroic couplet, he expresses his desire to be steadfast and love forever to still hear her “tender-taken breath,” or he will die in a “swoon;” a faintness of overpowering love. Frost’s looks to the star in hopes of being steadfast, although in his case it is to be steadfast in moral or political beliefs, not in love. He says that “when the mob is swayed” or when social, political, or moral turm

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