NAME & SURNAME NDABENHLE MZILA

STUDENT NUMBER 221022375

MODULE NAME & CODE ENGL201
TUTORIAL NUMBER & TITLE OF Tutorial 1
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RESPONSIBLE Ntando Mazibuko

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DATE OF SUBMISSION 01 Mar. 23

TUTORIAL 1 QUESTIONS

1. Because he wants to be perfect to his lover as he explains that the star’s isolation with
qualities of splendour nor beauty stays at his lover’s side for as long as he can,
perhaps forever. Just like the star, his eyes will remain open, and his position decided.

2. Motionless and unchangeable (steadfastness) and he dislikes being alone like a bright
star at night.

3. The first line starts with a negation. After that, the lyrical voice emphasizes the star’s
steadfast quality, the eternal and “unchangeable” element in it. The star is associated
with the lyrical voice’s loved one. I read ‘Bright star, would I be steadfast as thou
art as a love and romantic poem. “watching with eternal lids apart and not lone in
splendour”, he would rather be near his love watching her as opposed to watching her
from afar as the star watches from afar.

4. The speaker of “Bright Star” is someone passionately, deeply in love. The poem is
dedicated to describing the speaker's desire to spend eternity lying on his or her
lover's breast, feeling it rise and fall as this lover breathes, without otherwise changing
and moving.

5. He wishes to be forever linked in passion to his “fair love”. Keats has a particular
fondness for paradoxes. “Sweet unrest” contrasts whereby “sweet” describe
something pleasant and “unrest” is the total opposite. Eros is described as a passionate
and romantic kind of love.

6. In this poem, the poet accepts the possibility of death from pleasure. The word
“swoon” connotes sexual overtones; orgasm is often associated with death (the French
word for orgasm is le petit morte). The word "death" carries considerable significance
in the final effect and meaning of the poem due to its position as the last word in the
poem and its accented syllable. Because much-known death is never-ending.