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: -Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In the poem, Shelley’s speaker laments the passing of Adonais, calling the forces of nature, the gods of Greek and Roman mythology, and the great figures of history to share in the speaker’s sorrow. He condemns those he blames for Adonais’ death, with Shelley alluding to the critics who had disparaged Keats’ work.