No-Yet Still Unchangeable By John Keats

John Keats was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London. In Keats poem, “Bright Star! Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art,” the speakers talks to a star in the sky. He is talking to a star because he likes the way the star doesn't move in the sky and stays still forever. But the speakers really explains how he wants to be with his girlfriend for eternity. But if he’s eternity can’t be with her then he would rather die. In line nine this conveys the thesis, “No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable” (9). The theme expresses the speaker's desire to have the same qualities as a star and to be stedfast as a star would be for eternity.

The first thing that the speaker says in the first line is “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” (1). He starts