Keats and Frost Poems “Bright Star” by John Keats and “Choose Something Like a Star” by Robert Frost discuss a person’s curiosity about the world and heavens. Both authors look to the distant, unattainable star for answers to their questions. People can only look up at the star and wonder what wisdom it contains in its steadfast, unchanging state. While both men like the star and want to know its stories, Keats’ poem touches …showed first 75 words of 291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 291 total…to show his view of the romantic intertwining relationship between the earth and the light of the stars, “still to hear her tender-taken breath.” Both poets harp on the stars unchanging beauty sitting aloft. They are asking the star to tell him something of what it knows and has seen. The star has been steadfast in the sky for so long it must know and have seen more than neither Keats or Frost can conceive.