to have both of these qualities, however impossible that may be. Some of the themes presented in the poem include Art and experience, change and transformation, and death. The qualities that Keats attributes to the star in this poem are the qualities of the artist - it is said to be "watching, with eternal lids apart," while remaining uninvolved int he events that it is witness to. Keats uses certain words to make the poem beautiful. As far as change and transformation goes, the problem facing the speaker in this poem is that he would like to stop all change, freeze things at one particularly wonderful moment, but her realized that diong so would be the opposite of living life, the life is change, evern when that change is something as small as the motion of his love's breathing. The sudden appearance of death in the last line of this poem might take readers by surprise, especially since the preceding lines of the sestet had provided gentle images of life. This reversal should not come as too much of a shock, though, becuase
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