Posted by BenJamin on April 10, 19102 at 19:51:50:

In Reply to: Re: A question about a poem posted by Mariakarla on September 28, 19100 at 06:52:03:

: : Please about the poem CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR, I need to know what Keats' Eremite mean.

: : Thank you very much,

: : Mariakarla

: : P.s: I hope you can answer me.

In the poem "Take Something Like a Star" Robert Frost writes, "And steadfast as Keats' Eremite, Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks little of us here."

The question "Who was Keat's Eremite" was posed to a local scholar*, who refers us to a love sonnet by John Keats (1795 - 1821) and explains:

The "Eremite" here is a kind of hermit or devotee of nature keeping a steady if elevated vigil over the processes of the natural world. Keats goes to compare the steadfast vigil he wishes to keep "Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening ." The imagery throughout suggests a chaste religious attentiveness toward the sleeping body of his love, and the final rhyme of "breath" and "death" laces his own condition in poignant contrast to that of his love (Keats had contracted tuberculosis and would die of the disease within two years).

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