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*Lycidas*, written by John Milton in 1637, is a quintessential example of a pastoral elegy, a poetic form that laments the death of someone, often in an idealized rural or natural setting. This poem mourns the untimely death of Milton’s Cambridge contemporary, Edward King, who drowned in a shipwreck. Through the conventions of pastoral tradition, Milton constructs an elaborate lament while addressing personal, religious, and political themes. The poem opens with the conventional elements of pastoral elegy: shepherds, rural landscapes, and natural imagery. Milton assumes the persona of a shepherd mourning the loss of Lycidas, who is also represented as a shepherd. This device of using pastoral personas was inherited from the classical tradition, especially from poets like Theocritus and Virgil. The poem’s setting in an idyllic countryside populated ____ ________ ___ ____ __________ ____ ___ ______.
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