"Bright Star" by John Keats and "Choose Something Like a Star" by Robert Frost discuss a person's curiosity about the world and heavens. Both authors look to the distant, unattainable star for answers to their questions. People can only look up at the star and wonder what wisdom it contains in its steadfast, unchanging state.
             While both men like the star and want to know its stories, Keats' poem touches on the emotional side and Frost has a more scientific take on the star. Frost's style shows his logical analysis of the star, as he is interested in the analytical composition and temperature of the star. Yet, he does realize the natural beauty possessed by the star. He shows that the "dark is what brings out your light." Frost does refer to Keats' poem to show the star like the "Eremite," is separated from society in that it is far away and unattainable. Other than the allusion to Keats poem, Frost does not use as much emotion in his writing.
             Keats on the other hand is imagining all the star has seen from its ideal place in the sky; it looks upon all the beauty of the earth at once. He uses images of the earth as being a woman to show his view of the romantic intertwining relationship between the earth and the light of the stars, "still to hear her tender-taken breath."
             Both poets harp on the stars unchanging beauty sitting aloft. They are asking the star to tell him something of what it knows and has seen. The star has been steadfast in the sky for so long it must know and have seen more than neither Keats or Frost can conceive.
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