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Adonais: Shelleya płacz w Italii

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Lipska A.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

2016

issue 4

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Several months after John Keatss untimely death Percy Bysshe Shelley, another exile in Rome, penned Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. Central to the poem are Shelleys tears, and the present article discusses this multi-faceted motif. Written in an elegiac tone, the poem expresses grief over Shelleys compatriot, whom the author both knew and respected. The speakers emotions are amplified by the memories of fierce criticism Keats was unjustly subject to. Shelley clearly sympathised with Keats, leading a similar life in exile and having come into criticism himself. The present article, however, also argues that the motif of tear the poem can be studied not only from a biographical but also from a strictly literary perspecti- ve as a manifestation of Romantic conventions, especially those governing travel writing on the Grand Tour of Italy. Tears in Adonais reflect the speakers grief, nostalgia, melancholy and terror, all of which emotions were typical of the literary experience of ruins, as well as the interrelated notions of the sublime and the Gothic. The motif of tears is thus a multi-layered one, constituted

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