English Literature Romantic Poetry Selected Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais Brief Questions

Q.114. How does grief return to the poet?Ans. Grief returns to the poet with the revolving year.
Q.115. What elements of Nature participate joyfully in spring?
Ans. Airs, streams, ants, bees, swallows, birds, lizards, and snakes participate joyfully in spring.
Q.116. What do amorous birds do in spring?Ans. Amorous birds build their nests in spring.
Q.117. What do green lizard and golden snake do in spring?
Ans. They awake out of their trance in spring i.e. return to their active life after their dull sleep in winter.
Q.118. What has been refreshed by the quickening life?
Ans. Wood, stream, field, ocean and sky have been refreshed by the quickening life.
Q.119. What are the lambs of Heaven?
Ans. The sun, the moon and the stars are the lambs of Heaven.
Q.120. What are the baser things?
Ans. The baser things refer to lower animals, insects, worms etc.
Q.121. What is leprosy?
Ans. Leprosy is a disease that causes tissues to rot.
Q.122. How does Shelley describe the process of decay?
Ans. He says that no material object of the earth is completely destroyed. It transforms itself and exists at all times in different forms.
Q.123. How does a dead body transform into fragrant flowers?
Ans. By the law of nature, the dead body is transformed into fertilizing power which serves to feed the plants on which bloom sweet-smelling flowers.
Q.124. To what does Shelley compare the soul and the body?
Ans. He compares the soul to a sword and body to a scabbard.
Q.125. How is grief mortal?
Ans. Grief is mortal in the sense that it ends with the death of the person who feels grief over the death of someone.
Q.126. How are the higher and lower creatures made one?
Ans. The higher and lower creatures are made one in death.
Q.127. What is compared to a money-lender?Ans. Death is compared to a money-lender.
Q.128. Why is life called a borrower?
Ans. Life is called a borrower because it borrows from death what requires for earthly existence.
Q.129. Who is Misery?
Ans. Misery is the personified figure of Shelley's own grief.
Q.130. Who is called the childless Mother?Ans. Urania is called the childless Mother?Q.131. Why is Urania called the childless Mother?
Ans. Urania is called the childless Mother because she had become childless with the death of her youngest son, Adonais (Keats).
Q.132. What does Misery call upon Urania?Ans. Misery calls upon Urania to come and weep over her great loss, the death of Adonais (Keats).
Q.133. Why did Urania rise like an autumnal night?
Ans. Urania rose like an autumnal night as he was called upon to come and weep over the death of her son by Misery and her attendants Dreams and Echoes.
Q.134. Why does Shelley describe the day as moving around the earth on "eternal wings"?Ans. Shelley describes the day this way because it never fails to return in the morning; it is eternal.
Q.135. What is Urania afraid of?
Ans. She is afraid of her lonely life because of the death of her dearest son.
Q.136. Why is Urania compared to an autumnal night?
Ans. Urania is compared to a misty, windy night in autumn. An autumnal night is surrounded by stormy winds, thick gloom and cold mists. Similarly, Urania is surrounded by sorrow and fear.
Q.137. What is Urania's secret Paradise?
Ans. It is her sacred abode, ethereal region of love, peace and joy.
Q.138. Why does Urania fly from her secret Paradise?
Ans. Her grief over the death of her son was so great that she flies from her secret Paradise.
Q.139. What do "stone and steel" refer to in "Adonais"?
Ans. "Stone and steel" metaphorically refer to malice, wickedness and lack of sympathy of human hearts.
Q140. What do "barbed tongues and thoughts" refer to in "Adonais"?
Ans. "Barbed tongues and thoughts" refer to sharp criticism.
Q.141. Why does Shelley say that the public is undeserving of Keats's poetry?
Ans. Because of their lack of reaction, Shelley says the public is "undeserving of Keats" "eternal flowers," or his beautiful, eternal poetry.
Q.142. What are eternal flowers?
Ans. Eternal flowers refer to the eternal poetry of Keats.
Q.143. Why is Death ashamed by the presence of Urania?
Ans. Death is ashamed by the presence of Urania because of his ugly ways of taking the life of her son.
Q.144. Why does Death blush to annihilation?
Ans. Death is so embarrassed by the presence of Urania that he blushes himself to annihilation.
Q.145. How is Death made powerless for a moment?
Ans. Death is made powerless for a moment by the presence of Urania.
Q.146. What does Urania request her son when his dead lips became animated?
Ans. She begs him not to leave her again, in the "comfortless"world.
Q.147. What does Urania beg Adonais (Keats)?
Ans. She begs Adonais for a kiss and for a word from him.
Q.148. Why does Urania ask for a kiss and a word from Adonais?
Ans. Urania asks for a kiss and a word from Adonais so that she may preserve them as a treasure to herself.
Q.149. What is meant by Urania's 'heartless breast'?