A Comparison Of I Bright Star And Choose Something Like A Star

In the poems, I Bright Star and Choose Something Like a Star, both deal with a star that they admire and trust. Moreover, the speakers of both poems have different reasons on why they want to be unchangeable. The style of both poems are significant because it hints to the reader, the speaker’s purpose of these poems. Their similarities and differences creates a central theme for both poems. In the poem, Choose Something Like a Star, Robert Frost has a desire to become unchangeable, so that he can always stay true to his ideas. Frost approaches the star in the sky, hoping it will give him advice. Nonetheless, Frost knows the star cannot respond back. He asks the star if he can become steadfast. However, the star replies and says, “I burn.” There is an automatic switch in the speaker’s attitude, in which he becomes agitated. He demands the star to “talk in Fahrenheit and Centigrade, a language we can understand.” The speaker then switches the point of view, to the stars perspective and acts as if he unraveled the star’s message. The star tells the speaker and the reader to choose one star in …show more content…
Keats wants to be unchangeable, so he will not lose his lover. Keats opens the poem up by asking the star a question. This is significant because the start cannot talk back, similar to that of Frost. Keats wishes to the star that he faithful and never changing, like the star. However, in the next line of the poem, he contradicts himself and does not want to be like the star. The reason being is that the star is always alone. The only thing the star does is look down at Earth’s beauty. Keats then changes the direction of the poem and shifts the topic towards his lover. He describes her heartbeat as “sweet” because he is spending time with the women he loves. In contrast with Frost’s poem, he does not have a lover that he is mentions. Frost wants to change himself for the