FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Invocation of a muse
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A cry of lament
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Prayer to the Sun
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poem rehearses the typical conventions of the pastoral elegy: nature’s lament, the questioning of nymphs, repeated invocations of the muses, descriptions of flowers, and an apotheosis of the deceased.
Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Lycidas. John Milton wrote Lycidas mourning the death of his classmate Edward King who drowned in a shipwreck in the Irish Sea. It was first published in a 1638 collection of elegies in English and Latin titled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago.
Detailed explanation-3: -An overriding, defining theme of pastoral poems is the idea of an idealized vision of country life, in which humans live simply and in harmony with nature. Other common themes and motifs that characterize the pastoral mode include: A beautiful, natural setting.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hence pastoral elegy is an elegy in which the poet represents himself as a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd. The form arose among the ancient Greeks, and Theocritus, Bions and Moschus were its most noted practitioners.