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Tarek Molla , 45B, Evening, Roll: 12

Nahid Khan Saikat

Romantic Poetry-2 (Eng-308)

03. 10. 2022

What Do I Like and Dislike About the Poem Adonais and Why.

Percy Bysshe Shelley( 1792- 1822) was an English Romantic poet whose workshop came

extensively influential for their radical commentary on individualism and idealism. His poem,

Adonais An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion,etc., is one of his

best- known workshop and demonstrates the high value of art and literature that was emphasized

by Romantic muses during the early 18th century. Adonais, written and published in 1821 to

commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet John Keats before that time. The lyric follows

the ABABBCBCC format for Spenserian sonnets. Though it’s extensively considered as one of

the Shelly's finest work, I am going to partake my response as I formerly have finished reading

Adonais, a pastoral threnody on the death of John Keats.

 Shelley's poem, Adonais, starts with the speaker crying and mourning the death of Adonais

who represents Keats. To be veritably honest his morning lines of the lyric Adonais is really

veritably emotional. I like the way he begins to start the lyric. We also notice a veritably emotional

thing and that's natural forces crying out as well. Out of sadness, thunder moans, the winds sob,

and the ocean is restless. also all on a unforeseen, he calls for others to mourn with him which is

veritably disappointing. The speaker calls on other Greek gods and goddesses and other Romantic

muses, Urania leads these mourners to the grave of Adonais to weep for him. As then, we notice a

veritably cunning Shelly rather than an friend of John Keats. It’s feel like he is pretending to be an

friend of Keats but actually he is not. Or he is just trying to express that he loves Keats much

further than Keats's other coevals.

Urania, the Greek muses of astronomy who's easily professed in music and cotillion , In

this lyric, she's the mama of Adonais. This is really sounds awkward as we know Urenia is the

mama of Adonis. There’s no mistrustfulness that Shelly has constructed the character Urenia

impeccably but Urenia is Adonis lover according to Greek Mythology . When she comes to visit

her son's body, the speaker blames her for not to cover him and not being with him which is farcical.

Though, through Urenia Shelly actually has represented Keats’s contemporary society men who

didn’t know how to appreciate Keats as a minstrel.

As the mourners begins to weep, the narrator blames people who had blamed Adonais and

reduced his worth. Though Adonais is dead, the speaker claims that those who's responsible for

his death will endure greater suffering for it. Shelly also knows that he passed away due to
tuberculosis. But he got the print that Keats's death had been whisked by the cruel attacks of an

anonymous critic in the Quarterly Review on his poetry. As par my point of view being a poet he

can not condemn and cruise anyone the way he does in the poem. This part was really unanticipated

from such a prominent poet.

The speaker questions life and pain by meaning the ineluctability of death. He explains that

as we ’re humans we die, so we should grief. As a result, the pain that we are feeling will be

dissolved soon enough. He also discloses that death is necessary and that each and every person,

no matter how great, is the same as they must die. I like the way he introduces the fact that we

must die eventually and it’s certain. No matter, How important we try to escape it. The narrator

also suggests that there's no reasonable reason to cry since Keats is now in a better place, which he

describes to be a part of nature for eternity, and that means Keats is still alive in a way. The narrator

also states that the heritage of Keats will continue to live since his workshop will continue to goad

beauty through poetry and art. This lyrical spirit, endless and constant, will be a origin of beauty,

alleviation, and light for the coming generation. The way he consoles his melancholy on Keats's

death is really witching to me. As his expression was impressive here.

To conclude, It’s certain that Shelley views deathless as insulation and downfall and further

as an act of preponderancy far above the worldly sorrows and ills that irritates the living. Adonais

is at formerly a important threnody for Shelley's late friend, a smelling expostulation targeted at

Keats's critics, and a thoughtful contemplation on the nature of life and death.
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https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/shelleys-poems/summary-and-

analysis/adonais https://literariness.org/2021/04/10/analysis-of-shelleys-adonais-2/