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
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard verbal parallels, chose similar backgrounds to signal their parentage. One favourite theme was a meditation among ruins, such as John Langhorne's “Written among the ruins of Pontefract Castle” (1756), Edward Moore’s “An elegy, written among the ruins of a nobleman's seat in Cornwall” (1756) and John Cunningham’s “An elegy on a pile of ruins" (1761). Gray's friend William Mason chose an actual churchyard in South Wales for his “Elegy VI” (1787), adding a reference to the poet in the text. He also provided a final note explaining that the poem was written “to make it appear a day scene, and