Bright Star Allusion

While both "Bright Star," by John Keats and "Choose Something Like a Star," by Robert frost carry a motif of a star throughout the poems, both approach the motif in a different fashion. Both authors use personification, metaphor, and allusion in both poems and manage to address the message they convey. In Keats' poem, the speaker is directly addressing the star and tries to compare himself to it, "Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art--". The speaker laments how he wishes to be like the star and admires it for how the star manages to "watch," and how it essentially exists. He admires the qualities it has and its unending "eternal and steadfast," ways and wishes to be like the star for his "fair love." Ironically though, Keats manages to realize that he could never be like the star due to its "lone splendor hung aloft the night," even though the star is as "steadfast" as he wishes to be for his beloved.

Keats uses these words to illustrate the star's purity and further compare just how much he wishes his love could be just like the star. In Frost's poem, the speaker is also talking to the star, but instead of the speaker being one person, he is now speaking for many, "We grant your loftiness the right." The speaker in the poem is now questioning the star opposed to wishing to be like it, " Tell us what elements you blend." The speaker talks about the stars mystery and even tries to get the star to evoke what exactly it is hiding from him, "say something to us we can learn," "say something!"
The speaker also manages to use allusion to Keats' poem by describing the star as a "sleepless Eremite" and describes the star as "steadfast" just as Keats