Who Mourns for Adonais? the poem "Adonais" by Percy Shelley lamenting the death of John Keats, which is loosely based upon "A Lament for Adonis" by the Greek poet Bion. A part of the episode is shown in a scene in "". Who Mourns for Adonais? "Who Mourns for Adonais?" is the second episode of the of the American science fiction television series "". Written by Gilbert Ralston and Gene L. Coon, and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast September 22, 1967. The title is in line 415 of the 1821 elegy "Adonais" by Percy Bysshe Shelley and roughly means "who mourns
Pastoral elegy Shelley's grief is also palpable in the subsequent mourning: Thyrsis Written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865, "Thyrsis" is a personal elegy that mourns the death of Matthew's friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Clough died in November 1861 at the age of 42. The poem's plot revolves around the main character Thyrsis, a shepherd in Virgil's seventh Eclogue, who loses a singing match against Corydon. Matthew Arnold's character Thyrsis represents Matthew's friend Arthur Clough. Keeping with the tradition of pastoral elegy poetry, Arnold displays pastoral elements in the poem as he describes the nature surrounding Oxford. Literary criticism on Pastoral Literature