Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sybolism of the star

Throughout the poem of "Bright Star" the speaker expresses his dislikes and likes about how a star lives. But this overview of the star of course is going to stand for something much more. The star symbolizes how he wants his life to be spent. The reader can pick this up because at the end of the poem he starts describing being with his live and "to feel forever" and "so ever live- or else swoon to death." The reader is comparing his life to the star's life and how he does not want to live alone. Instead, he'd much rather live in the arms of his lover. So because of all this, the reader can then go back through the whole poem and then know how the speaker would want to live his life. So without the last few lines of the poem where the speaker references himself, it would not be as clear to understand he is relating the star to himself.

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