ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What Adonais is, why fear we to become? 52 The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.-Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!

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. Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies.

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.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is the theme of Adonais? Adonais commemorates the life and legacy of John Keats. The main themes that appear in the poem are the relationship between man and nature, immortalization and rebirth, and the influence of art and beauty.

Detailed explanation-5: -Percy Bysshe Shelley “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.