Trace the Romantic Elements in "Adonais."

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Trace the romantic elements in Adonais Adonais is a fantastic poem composed by the revolutionary poet P B Shelley - Shelley is a well-known romantic poet His poems contain a lot of romantic elements Let us scan the poem Adonais for the romantic elements Love for Nature Shelley portrays natural images from Stanza to Stanza He presents nature as it is mourning for the death of Keats The Romantics think that God is present in nature For this at the end of Adonais he mentions that Keats did not die but has become mixed with nature That means he goes close to God and becomes immortal Shelley says He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light from herb and stone Strong Senses Emotions and Feelings Strong senses emotions and feelings are also elements of romanticism In this poem we get the attachment with the

mentioned elements Shelley mourns the premature death of Keats His mourning has no bounds He presents the procession of mourners in stanza References from Classical Mythology The name of the poem Adonais references Greek mythology Adonais is a beautiful mortal youth beloved by the goddesses Aphrodite and Proserpine Here we find another element reference from classical mythology High imagination High imagination is a romantic element used in Romantic poems Here Shelley uses this term to develop the poem He thinks that Keats is in the eternal world He presents the mourners in such a way that it is present in the audience It comes from the power of managing high imagination Shelley states The soul of Adonais like a star Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are In termination we may say that the poem is developed with the elements of romantic poetry Shelley is successful in his attempt to create this poem

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Trace the Romantic Elements in "Adonais."

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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