Bright Star
by John Keats
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-
(purple: apostrophe)
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
(lilac : personification)
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
(blue: simile, assonance - nature, patient)
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask )
)=> enjambment
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-)
(sky blue: metaphor - snow : mask)(green: aliteration)
No - yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel forever its soft fall and swell,
(red : consonance)
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
(orange : oxymoron)
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever- or else swoon to death.
aloft ADV LITERARY Something that is aloft is in the air or off the ground.
ablution NOUN the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
NOUN often plural the act of washing (esp in the phrase perform one's ablutions)
NOUN plural, Mil:Military, informal a washing place
moor NOUN mainly BRIT A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather.
NOUN The Moors were a Muslim people who established a civilization in North Africa and Spain between the 8th and the 15th century A.D.
VERB If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. (=tie up)
Analysis
* sonnet (14 lines, the rhyme scheme : ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)
빛나는 별
존 키츠
빛나는 별아, 내가 너처럼 한결 같으면,
밤하늘의 너처럼 화려하게 걸려있지 않을 텐데.
인내심 많고 잠 못 이루는 자연의 은자처럼.
끊임없이 눈을 뜨고 바라보는구나.
우리 사는 세상의 바닷가를 깨끗하게 씻어내는,
사제 같은 일을 하는 썰물을,
산등성에, 황무지에 수북이 내린 눈을,
부드러운 가면을 쓰고 바라보는구나.
아니, 여전히 변함없고, 여전히 한결같이
내, 그대 가슴에 베게 삼아 얼굴을 묻고,
부드러운 오르내림을 영원히 느끼며,
영원히 깨어있으리니.
계속, 계속 그대의 부드러운 숨소리를 들으며,
소멸하지 않고 끝없이 살고 싶어라.