highly personal and revealing. John Keats' does not see life worth living without love, without humanity. This is displayed to the responder in "...or else swoon to death". To love is to be human and it is a part of humanity that cannot be traded for anything else, even immortality.
             Another part of the human condition is change, which John Keats looks at in his poem. As the seasons change in "new snow fallen mask" the North Star is unchanged and unaffected. The use of winter imagery here suggests that composer is regretful and cold about giving up company of his lover at death. Keats also compares his love to the unchanging star in "yet still steadfast". This also creates a comparison between an intangible and unchangeable, love, and something tangible and constantly changing, the human life. Death is the major and most significant of the Rites de passage. The composer recognizes and accepts this fact and conveys depression and a suicidal nature of love in the fact that he will not be able to stay in ecstasy with his lover forever. He wishes to sta
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