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This is a 5 page paper comparing the elegies of Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” and Shelley’s “Adonais”. The Romantic period in English literature from approximately 1798 to 1832 showed its diversity in a sense by its different formats found in the elegies of William Wordsworth in “The Ruined Cottage” (1797) and of Percy Bysshe Shelley in “Adonais” (1821). Although Wordsworth’s work was published at the beginning of the Romantic Period and Shelley’s at the end, Shelley’s poem in more classic in its design, imagery and is a comparison to the classical elegies of Virgil while Wordsworth’s remains natural in its content and language. Wordsworth’s vivid descriptions of the ruined cottage reflects the deep psychological depression of its central character and the reader mourns for her while Shelley’s “Adonais” is equally vivid in its deep mourning of the narrator as it was written from Shelley’s own outrage and pain from Keats’s death.
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the elegies of William Wordsworth in "The Ruined Cottage" (1797) and of Percy Bysshe Shelley in "Adonais" (1821). Although Wordsworths work was published at the beginning of the Romantic Period
and Shelleys at the end, Shelleys poem in more classic in its design, imagery and is a comparison to the classical elegies of Virgil while Wordsworths remains natural in its
content and language. Wordsworths vivid descriptions of the ruined cottage reflects the deep psychological depression of its central character and the reader mourns for her while Shelleys "Adonais" is equally
vivid in its deep mourning of the narrator as it was written from Shelleys own outrage and pain from Keatss death. During the 1790s, the Romantic concern was for that
of the invisible, the dead, the missing many works of which were formalized into elegies, or works lamenting the dead with a generally melancholy theme and became known as the
"politics of sympathy" and were noted in the works of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, early William Wordsworth as seen in "The Ruined Cottage" (1797) and carried through with the works
of Percy Bysshe Shelley in his elegy to Keats "Adonais" (1821). Critics believe that many of the elegies were developed to enhance the publics sympathy and compassion in the aspects
of grief and the resolution of this grief while still be aligned with the intense imagery presented in the Romantic works (Brigham, 1997). Wordsworths works are known for their imagery
and his detailed descriptions allow for the reader to follow the imagery of the eyes of characters within the narrative to absorb their consuming grief as in Margarets grief in
"The Ruined Cottage". William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland on April 17, 1770 and died on April 23, 1850 in Westmorland. He
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