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The use of the star imagery is unusual in that Keats dismisses many of its more apparent qualities, focusing on the star's steadfast and passively watchful nature. In the first recorded draft (copied by Charles Brown and dated to early 1819), the poet loves unto death; by the final version, death is an alternative to (ephemeral) love.
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Bright Star was in the main competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was first shown to the public on 15 May 2009. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats titled " Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art ", which he wrote while he was with Brawne.
The title of Patrick Kavanagh's poem "On Looking into E. V. Rieu's Homer", about E. V. Rieu's Homer translations, is an allusion on the title of Keats's poem. In Saki 's story "The Talking-out of Tarrington", a character is greeted with a " 'silent-upon-a-peak-in-Darien' stare which denoted an absence of all previous acquaintance with the ...
The 1915 American film The Poet of the Peaks was based upon the poem. [23] Germaine Dulac's 1920 La Belle Dame sans Merci explores the archetype of the femme fatale. [24] [25] Natassia Malthe stars as "The Lady" in Hidetoshi Oneda 2005 fantasy short of the same title. Ben Whishaw recites the poem in the 2009 Keats biopic Bright Star.
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