... " forever looking down on the earth. At this point Keats seems to switch to what the isolated, hermit-like star is watching: oceans and snow. Again, though, this brief summary leaves out the way Keats presents these things. We don't see impersonal expanses of ocean. Instead we (and the star) see "the moving waters at their priestlike task/ Of pure abolution ... as the star, he could lie awake forever, his head pillowed on the breast of his fair love, while the fair love (apparently) sleeps forever, her breast forever swelling and falling. But what about that last line? The first half rei...

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