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 of elegies In classic literature, an elegy was simply any poem written in elegiac meter and was not restricted by its subject. Elegiac meter was considered alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter. Most classical elegies were actually love poems, not laments. In English literature since the 16th century CE, the elegy has come to mean specifically a poem of lamentation. Additionally, it may be written in any meter the poet chooses. Key poets who shaped the genre After Theocritus' first idyll (early 3rd century BCE), the earliest Greek pastoral elegy is Bion of Smyrna's poem lamenting the death of