ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ˌædoʊˈneɪ. ɪs/) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley’s best and best-known works.

Detailed explanation-2: -Adonais, pastoral elegy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written and published in 1821 to commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet John Keats earlier that year.

Detailed explanation-3: -By referring to Keats as “Adonais, ” Shelley is using the god as a symbol of the poet. It’s his way of celebrating Keats’ beauty (or the beauty of his words) and mourning his early death.

Detailed explanation-4: -Its title refers to the Greek mythological figure Adonis, the handsome young lover of the god Aphrodite who also died an untimely death at a young age. Some scholars argue that Shelley’s intent was to draw comparisons between the boar that gored and killed Adonis, and the critics who savaged Keats during his lifetime.