FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Question
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Mourns the death of a college classmate
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Mourns the death of his mother
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Mourns the death of his son
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Mourns the death of his wife
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, the speaker is so filled with sorrow for the death of Lycidas that he finally begins to write an elegy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lycidas, poem by John Milton, written in 1637 for inclusion in a volume of elegies published in 1638 to commemorate the death of Edward King, Milton’s contemporary at the University of Cambridge who had drowned in a shipwreck in August 1637.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Milton’s “Lycidas”, is a pastoral elegy about his deceased friend, Edward King. The speaker laments his friend’s death and goes through several phases of the mourning process.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lycidas is a pastoral elegy written on the death of Milton’s classmate Edward King who drowned in a shipwreck in the Iris Sea in which he has expressed his tribute to his friend using the elegiac form popularised by the Greek poet Theocritus and Virgil.
Detailed explanation-5: -Genre. Lycidas is a pastoral elegy, a genre initiated by Theocritus, also put to famous use by Virgil and Spenser.