Song of Proserpine by Percy Bysshe Shelley..?

Question

What did author base on to create this poem?

I mean what is the subject??

Answer 1

Based on Proserpine --- Roman Myth

The daughter of Zeus and Demeter; wife of Pluto; Queen of Hades. Pluto abducted while she was gathering flowers on the plain of Enna in the Sicily. Demeter sought her everywhere, and threatened destruction for all mankind by withdrawing fertility from the earth if she could not find her. Zeus promised to restore Persephone to her mother provided Persephone had eaten nothing in Hades; but she had eaten some pomergranate seeds and was compelled to spend six months each year with Pluto but allowed six months with her mother.

Persephone = A personification of spring.

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Answer 2

The myth of Proserpine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina