"Bright Star" ~ #11

Bright star personifies a star through the use of apostrophe. The speaker speaks to the star as a way to communicate his feelings about his love. The star is a metaphor for how he desires his love to be and what he doesn't want his love to be. The speaker doesn't want to be lonely like a star. He does want his love to be unchangeable though. The speaker wants to live forever like a star. These metaphors and personification are appropriate because they relate the speaker's abstract idea of love to a well-known object, a star. The speaker accurately gets his point across by describing his wants and desires through his conversation with the star. Figurative language gives the poem the ability to relate to the reader and give a better understanding to the audience.