Eternal Transience

In  Bright Star by John Keats, the speaker wants to emulate the star, but only its eternity: "would I were steadfast as thou art" (Keats, 792). The star hangs in the sky in a state of loneliness. It is always watching and looking upon the universe. The star is personified as a hermit, existing far away from anyone or anything. The star looks upon the changing of time and the vanishing of human generations of one after another. The star could also be gazing at the snow falling and covering the mountains and moors, lonely and desolate places on the Earth. The only aspect of the star the speaker wants is its eternity because he wants to feel and live intimate and special moments forever. The speaker wants his transient moment with his love to seem like an eternity. The speaker does not want to be lonely, know and see everything, live distant from society, or see the changing of time and places. If he cannot feel eternity in his transient moment, he would rather last an eternity in death.