Adonais
by P B Shelley
1. What kind of poem is "Adonais"?
Ans: Adonais is a pastoral elegy.
2. What is an elegy?
Ans: An elegy is a sad poem to lament for someone who is dead.
3. What is a pastoral elegy?
Ans: A pastoral elegy is a poem in which the poet speaks in the guise of a shepherd in a peaceful rural landscape and expresses his grief on the death of another shepherd.
4. What is the subtitle of the poem "Adonais"?
Ans: The subtitle of the poem "Adonais" is “An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”.
5. Who is Adonais in the poem "Adonais"?
Ans: John Keats is Adonais in the poem "Adonais".
6. When did Keats die?
Ans: Keats died on 23 Feb 1821.
7. What, according to Shelley, was the cause of Keats' death?
Ans: According to Shelley, the cause of Keats' death was the anonymous reviewer of Keats’ poem “Endymion”.
8. What was the real cause of Keats' death?
Ans: The real cause of Keats' death was his tuberculosis (TB).
9. Who is Urania? [NU 2018]
Ans: Urania was one of the nine Muses. She was the goddesses of music, song and dance.
10. Who are the three sons of light?
Ans: The three sons of light are Homer, Dante and Milton.
11. Whom does Shelley call "suns" in "Adonais"?
Ans: In "Adonais", Shelley calls genius poets as “suns”.
12. Who is the youngest son of Urania?
Ans: According to Shelley, Keats is the youngest son of Urania.
13. Who is Echo?
Ans: Echo is a mountain nymph that lived on Mount Kithairon.
14. Who is Phoebus?
Ans: Phoebus is Apollo, the Greek god of the sun.
15. Who was Cain?
Ans: Cain is the first-born son of Adam and Eve. He murdered his brother Abel.
16. Whom does Shelley hold responsible for the death of Keats?
Ans: Shelley holds the critic and reviewer of Keats to be responsible for his death.
17. Who is compared to a viper in "Adonais"?
Ans: The reviewer of “Endymion“ is compared to a viper in "Adonais".
18. What is Irene?
Ans: Irene refers to Ireland.
19. Who was Actaeon?
Ans: Actaeon, son of Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.
20. How has death immortalized Keats?
Ans: Death has immortalized Keats by securing him from the attacks of envy, hatred, pain and unrest.
21. Why is Keats called Vesper?
Ans: Keats is called Vesper or the evening star because he is the latest example of the great poets who died young.
22. Why is Rome called a paradise?
Ans: Rome is called a paradise because of its immortal pieces of art and cozy climate.
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