1-12). The biblical allusion increases the apocalyptic tone of the poem, making this darkness a curse of Biblical proportions.
Deliberate morphemic repetition of functional suffixes -less and -ing support the idea of ??despair and emphasize the process of dying. Another thing to add is the description of mental and moral state of men - they lost their faith, but still express hope in that selfish prayer for light. They degenerated to the lowest limit, but it s not the only thing that unites humanity.Byron envisions the very end of the human world, famine has killed all but two men, and they were enemies. These last two survivors of a dead world meet by accident at a place where other horrors have been perpetrated: a mass of holy things/For an unholy usage (here we observe antithesis, that is seen throughout the human history). The blasphemers, who sacrificed morality for a little temporary safety, are now dead. In the small flames the two enemies cooperate, not thinking of themselves as enemies. But when they manage to stoke the flames they see one another s faces in horror and die. The men die only able to see the fiend (could mean the Devil and then another allusion to the Bible) written upon each other s brow by famine .They see the utter horror of the end and can no longer take it.use of antonomasia -Death, War, Darkness also makes us remind the New Testament and the similar acts done by the supernatural forces used as God s servants (the 4 Horsemen or 7 Angels if to recall a few of them).
Death and Darkness are represented as the great levelers, as houses of the rich and poor are equally burnt down and all men gathered together in their last hope. Still the bitter sarcasm is heard in the lines when the War that has stopped because of the supernatural disaster, however rages on; but here it turns from political warfare to fighting and killing out of a desire to survive. Here s another moral from Bible as it is said that nothing but Death will teach the human race, what inevitably comes as the result in the poem.
Adonais - is an elegy written in memory of one of the greatest Romantics and a close friend of Shelley, John Keats. The whole poem is a an outstanding allusion to the Ancient Greek mythology, dealing in some sense with the motifs from Christianity. Strictly speaking, Keats was the first to promote the idea of ??relating to Ancient Greek times as ideal times for humans (poets in particular). This could be one of the points why Shelley chose such an exclusive form of praising his friend who died. The other is that Christian theme was always close to Shelley, as well as to Byron, despite their mutual hatred towards the Church. In Adonais Shelley sees Jesus Christ in Greek disguise, as we feel from the tone of the poem, the main hero is praised as a martyr. Yet, in his poetry, he often represents the poet as a Christ-like figure and thus sets the poet up as a secular replacement for Christ. Martyred by society and conventional values, the Christ figure is resurrected by the power of nature and his own imagination and spreads his prophetic visions over the earth. Shelley further separates his Christ figures from traditional Christian values ??in Adonais, in which he compares the same character to Christ, as well as Cain, whom the Bible portrays as the world s first murderer. For Shelley, Christ and Cain are both outcasts and rebels, like romantic poets and like himself. is also interesting to dwell upon the name of the poem and the main hero himself. Adonais is a conversion made up by means of combining two versions of one name of a Deity - Adonis and Adonai. Adonis was a Phrygian god of dying and reviving nature; he emanated on the earth and died suddenly, likening the fate of Christ, his cult became a part of Greek-Roman religious system and influenced the further Christian dogmatism. Adonai is a form of address to the Almighty God originally taken from Judaism and then also transferred to the Christian religion. So the peculiarities of different systems were synthesized here in one notion and the author created a somewhat new mysterious and super powerful image.the type of verse - Shelley chose the specific Spenser verse (so admired by Byron, by the way). It is the pastoral elegy, so specific for Greek and Roman poetry (so we see Lucan, mentioned in the poem). The difference between ancient and Shelly s poem lies in the fact that in Adonais Shelley accuses a person who, to his viewpoint, was the real cause of poet s death - literary critic. Next thing is the obvious prediction of own Shelley s death - he described with admiration a part of Roman cemetery, and told that he would follow his friend to the Otherworld. Indeed, he died just in two years and was buried in the place he described.the obvious parallel that both were taken at a young age, Shelley uses this poem to make readers hold ...
