What aspect of nature does the star represent in the poem? bright star by john keats bright star, would i were stedfast as thou art-- not in lone splendour hung aloft the night and watching, with eternal lids apart, like nature's patient, sleepless eremite, the moving waters at their priestlike task of pure ablution round earth's human shores, or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- no—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, to feel for ever its soft fall and swell, awake for ever in a sweet unrest, still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, and so live ever—or else swoon to death. its vastness as it looks down upon the mountains, as if they were mere actors wearing masksits spiritual importance as the overseer of all of earth, cleansing life of its impuritiesits indifference toward the trivial details that constitute human life on earthits constancy in contrast to the rapid changes the speaker undergoesits difference from the speaker's love, who unfortunately will not live forever