Monday, January 20, 2003

From "Adonais," 49-52 Comments

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Go thou to Rome,--at once the Paradise,
The grave, the city, and the wilderness;
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sylvia Frances Chan 06 September 2024

The poem emphatically celebrates the reality of immortality, that the flesh, corruptible and vulnerable, is itself an illusion, that the speaker—not Adonais/Keats—is in a far more emotionally compromised position.

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