Q: Lycidas is a pastoral elegy written by Milton on the death of his friend:
a) John Cocke
b) Chaucer
c) John Bunyan
d) Edward King
Correct answer: d) Edward King
A Pastoral Elegy Written by Milton
Milton wrote "Lycidas" a few months after his friend, Edward King, died in a Shipwreck in 1637. The poem is a Pastoral Elegy. It is a form of poetry used to memorialize the dead and has become one of the most famous reflections on loss in the English language. Though Milton writes "Lycidas" to memorialize his dead friend, the poem also does much more. It is not so much an obituary for King as a poem written on the occasion of King's death. He distances himself from the king's actual death and puts his poem in dialogue with the conventions of pastoral poetry. More than King, "Lycidas" is about the relationship between grief and the traditions available to a poet who wants to express grief.
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