1. “Adonias” “Adonais” is an elegy written for John Keats where Adonais represents Keats.

2. Outline 1.stanzas 1-8 include the invocation of the muse (Urania) as part of the speaker’s lament 2.stanzas 9-13 explore the nature of imagination 3.stanzas 14-21 contain the appeal to and response of nature

3. 4.stanzas 22-29 the muse responds but is limited by nature just as critics and poets are limited in their ability to respond to one another 5.stanzas 30-38 shows the procession of the mourners, which represent Keats’s poetry and passions the last in the procession represents Shelley note that various stanzas (17, 27-29, 36-37) denounce those critical of Keats’s work

4. 6.line 343 provides consolation even in death (quotation from Jesus [Luke 8.52]) 7.stanzas 39-46 shows the speaker’s new, transformed state of mind

5. 8.stanzas 47-52 is the speaker’s address to the mourners as well as himself giving advice and consolation 9.stanzas 53-55 conclude with the immortality of the soul. Shelley’s end is eerily presaged by this final stanza