(New to) Great Regulars: As the critic Harold Bloom succinctly puts it,

"Keats wants to be as steadfast as the star, but not in the sense of the solitude of the star's steadfastness". Lines 2-8 describe the star's steadfastness, which is, above all, one of solitude as hinted by its hanging in "lone splendour", and the poet calls the Star an "Eremite," or hermit. Keats says that it rests "aloft the night," meaning both in the night sky and above the night sky.

from Bhaskar Banerjee: Merinews: Keat's monument of the soul's magnificence

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She dreams that her parents are seated on two chairs against a table. Since in dreams no doubts can exist, she sees them as real-life figures, faintly aware also at the back of her consciousness that they are not, as suggested by the word 'again' alive for her. To her, the faces long since lost, appear so immensely adorable with the light of living that even as the time is one of progressive falling of darkness, with the setting sun at dusk, they glow; and the radiance that shone with brightness on their countenance, she imagines, were fit for a painting by Rembrandt.

from Bhaskar Banerjee: Merinews: A dream reality . . . !

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