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    KEY STAGE AGE AT A GLANCE

    EYFS 3-5 • JOHN KEATS


    KS1 5-7 • SONNETS
    KS2 7-11 • FEELINGS & EMOTION


    KS3 11-14 • LOVE POETRY
    KS4 14-16 • EXPERIENCE
    KS5 16-18

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    POETRYCLASS: FRESH IDEAS FOR POETRY LEARNING FROM THE POETRY SOCIETY

    ‘BRIGHT STAR’ BY JOHN KEATS


    BY NICHOLAS ROE
    solitude and intimacy, eternity and mortal fears of
    ceasing to be.

    Teaching the poem


    Start by reading the poem aloud, or having a
    student do so. Investigate the poem more deeply using
    the approaches below, working as a class or in small
    groups.

    Read the poem closely and list any words and


    images that sound strange or unfamiliar to you. What
    do they contribute to the poem?

    Read the poem out loud again, listening closely.


    Keats and ‘Bright Star’ What kinds of sounds does the poem make?
    The great English Romantic poet John Keats created
    some of the best-loved poems in the tradition – ‘Ode to From your reading of the poem, what kinds of
    a Nightingale’, ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’, and the sonnet occasion or experience do you think it might have
    ‘Bright Star’. Born in the City of London in October 1795, arisen from?
    Keats’s greatest poetry dates from the years 1818-1820,
    before his tragically early death from tuberculosis in What does the fourteen-line sonnet form contribute
    Rome, aged twenty-five, in February 1821. to ‘Bright Star’? Can you imagine a different form for
    the poem – for example, a short story?
    As a poet Keats was attracted to the compact forms
    of lyric, sonnets, odes, and drawn as well to the more Is ‘Bright Star’ a love poem? If it is, why does the
    expansive possibilities of narrative and epic poetry. His poet have so much to say about himself?
    ‘Bright Star’ sonnet is often said to be about his beloved
    Fanny Brawne, although exactly when and why the Some books print slightly different versions of this
    sonnet was written is unknown. There are several poem. Why do you think that is? Look at some variations
    different versions of this poem; the version given here and see which you prefer.
    was headed ‘Sonnet 1819’, but that does not necessarily
    mean it was written then. Take the title ‘Bright Star!’ and write your own
    poem on that subject, keeping to fourteen lines.
    Formally it is a Shakespearean sonnet, composed of three
    quatrains (or four-line verses) rhyming ABAB, and a Further reading
    final rhyming couplet to give the total of fourteen lines. For more information about Keats’s life, take a look at
    Like many of Keats’s poems, ‘Bright Star’ contrasts the biography, John Keats: A New Life, by Nicholas
    ideas of beauty and transience, pleasure and suffering, Roe (Yale University Press, 2012).

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    BRIGHT STAR
    Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou art!
    Not in lone splendour hung amid the night;
    Not watching, with eternal lids apart,
    Like Nature’s devout sleepless Eremite,
    The morning waters at their priestlike task
    Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores;
    Or, gazing on the new soft fallen mask
    Of snow upon the mountains and the moors:—
    No;—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
    Cheek-pillow’d on my Love’s white ripening breast,
    To touch, for ever, its warm sink and swell,
    Awake, for ever, in a sweet unrest;
    To hear, to feel her tender taken breath,
    Half passionless, and so swoon on to death.

    JOHN KEATS

    John Keats was born in the City of London on 31 October 1795.


    From 1818 to 1820 he lived in Hampstead, where he fell in love
    with Fanny Brawne, the girl who lived next door. The 2009 movie
    Bright Star (cert PG), about their relationship, is named after
    this poem.

    Illustration by David Sparshott. www.davidsparshott.com © 2012 POETRY SOCIETY & THE AUTHOR/S
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