“Adonias” “Adonais” is an elegy written for John Keats where Adonais represents Keats.
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 contain the appeal to and response of nature
4.stanzas 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 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
6.line 343 provides consolation even in death (quotation from Jesus [Luke 8.52]) 7.stanzas shows the speaker’s new, transformed state of mind
8.stanzas is the speaker’s address to the mourners as well as himself giving advice and consolation 9.stanzas conclude with the immortality of the soul. Shelley’s end is eerily presaged by this final stanza