"Bright Star" by John Keats: Question 1

       In John Keats' "Bright Star", the speaker is describing how he wants to be and how he wants to live the whole of his life.  In the first line he says that he does not want to change.  He wants to be a constant figure in his life.  But the following lines 2-8 express how he does not want to be like the star.  The star could be the moon, but is more likely the northern star because it never changes.  The speaker says that he does not want to change and move like the waters and the seas that move along earth's shores.  Line four says, "Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite," (Keats, 792).  This line is expressing that the speaker does not want to remain without human contact like a hermit.  He also wants to be himself and not just apart of how the world works.  The first line of the poem introduces what he admires and wants to emulate and the next seven lines express how he does not want to be.