ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shelley argues that the world has been stunned by reasonable thinking, and poetry “creates new materials of knowledge, and power and pleasure”. He delicately explicates that the “poetical faculty” is characterized by a divine power.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats’ death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton’s Lycidas.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.