ESSAY ON: Comparison of the Elegies “The Ruined Cottage” by Wordsworth and “Adonais” by Shelley

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This research paper: 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. Bibliography lists 9 sources.


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