Describe the Procession of Mourners in "Adonais."

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Describe the procession of mourners in Adonais Adonais is an elegy on the death of John Keats - by Percy Bysshe Shelley - P B Shelley presents a vivid procession of mourners to honor the life and mourn the death of John Keats The sorrowful gathering of both real and abstract mourners is seen in this poem Mythological Figures Shelley includes mythological elements in the procession He speaks of Urania the muse of astronomy mourning Keats's death For instance nbsp Where wert thou mighty Mother when he lay When thy Son lay pierc'd by the shaft which flies In darkness where was lorn Urania When Adonais died Poetic Heroes The procession includes other poets and writers who are also mourners They are depicted rising from their graves or places of rest to pay tribute to Keats For example Chatterton Sidney and Lucan rise from their graves to acknowledge Keats's greatness

The inheritors of unfulfill'd renown Rose from their thrones built beyond mortal thought Nature and Abstract Concepts The procession expands to include elements of nature and abstract concepts Nature mourns Keats's death represented by phenomena like the personified Nightingale the Sun the Earth etc For example Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains And feeds her grief with his remember'd lay Unidentified Mourners Some unidentified mourners express grief and sorrow over Keats's death They come together in a collective mourning for the departed poet To conclude the procession of mourners in Adonais contains nature renowned poets and unidentified mourners All expressed profound sorrow and gave tribute to the departed poet John Keats Through vivid and symbolic language Shelley captures the universal sorrow felt at the loss of Keats and honors his enduring legacy in the realm of poetry

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