Spring season is wild with grief and it is throwing her flower buds down As if the Spring has become Autumn and throwing the buds The poet says Grief made the young Spring wild and she threw down Her kindling buds as if she Autumn were This image shows that even Spring the season of beauty and growth is in sorrow because Keats is gone Shelley portrays flowers as weeping rivers as mourning and winds as sobbing These personifications create a feeling that all of nature feels the loss of Keats Keats as Part of Nature Shelley believes Keats spirit has become a part of nature Keats has become a part of the eternal force that we can find in nature His voice lives on in all the sounds of nature from the deep rumble of thunder to the sweet song of a bird at night As the poet writes He is made one with Nature there is heard His voice in all her nature s music Keats is no longer just a physical being he is now part of something larger something eternal Shelley describes Keats as a presence that can be sensed in plants stones and every corner of the earth He declares that Keats spirit is immortal Keats spirit continues to exist in the beauty and harmony of nature Nature s Immortality Nature in Adonais is eternal immortal and through it Shelley finds consolation While humans may die nature continues in its endless cycle growth decay and growth The endless cycle of nature represents hope and renewal Shelley uses the image of the One Spirit a divine force that sustains all beauty of nature He suggests that Keats soul has joined this eternal spirit Thus Keats will remain immortal through the beauty of nature Symbolism of the Cemetery Shelley describes the cemetery in Rome where Keats is buried The cemetery is a beautiful and peaceful place He writes about the grass and laughing flowers growing near the grave symbolizing life continuing even after death This image shows how nature can heal preserve memories Here the growing nature has preserved the memories of Keats Images of Light Shelley uses images of light to symbolize eternity and Keats soul Shelley suggests Keats soul has transcended death The poet writes The soul of Adonais like a star Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are Here Shelley imagines Keats soul as a shining star The star beacons from the heaven sky from eternity This suggests that Keats soul has become immortal Light is also associated with hope Shelley contrasts light with the shadow of our night this image presents human pain and mortality By using light Shelley shows that Keats is no longer bound by earthly suffering Keats now exists in a higher eternal state In fine Shelley treats nature as a living force that mourns consoles and immortalizes Keats Through personification vivid imagery and symbolic representations he connects Keats spirit to the eternal beauty of the natural world For Shelley nature is immortal and a source of hope Shelley s treatment of nature reminds readers that while life may fade beauty and art live on forever