Oh, weep for Adonais—he is dead! Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep! Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed. Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair. …

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, …

Lamented Adonais. Morning sought Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, Dimmed the aerial eyes that kindle day; Afar the …

Shelley in this poem changes the spelling of “Adonis” to “Adonais”, and he makes Urania the mother of Adonais, not his beloved, in order to keep out the erotic element from his elegy. …

Adonais Percy Bysshe Shelley I weep for Adonais—he is dead!Oh weep for Adonais, though our tearsThaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!And thou, sad Hour selected from all …

The poem starts out with grief and sadness, then progresses to admiration and recognition of Keats' work, and finally to positive and hopeful thoughts and acceptance towards his death. It …

Percy Shelley: Poems study guide contains a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and …

The result was Adonais, which he wrote in the spring and published in the fall of 1821. To make doubly clear his aggressive intention in the poem, he provided it with a preface in which he …

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821). 1 I weep for Adonais--he is dead! 3 Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! 9 An echo and a light unto eternity!" 13 When Adonais died? With …

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.