場所のあわい : カントリーハウス・ポエムの変遷についての一考察
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Among the English seventeenth century country house poems, some poems fall into several groups according to the relations of such places as a building, a garden, and some other places of the estate. In Ben Jonson's 'To Penshurst' and a series of poems under its influence, an emphasis is put on the description of the building and the hall of the country house. The poets describe those places, sometimes symbolically to show the virtue of hospitality of the owner of the house, and sometimes synecdochically in order to represent the whole house as a kind of paradise against the outside world which reflects the England in a social convulsion at that time. On the other hand, in a group of so-called closet poems within the genre, no place in the country house seems to take on any symbolic meaning in the poem. This is because in these poems where various kinds of fine art and artificial devices are praised, it is the lack of feature of the different places that shows the uniformity of the owner's taste of art and his power to collect or to have those things made; some places are even regarded as such artificial things, themselves. Concerning place relations, another important thing is the similarity between the country house poem and the topographical poem. It does not only mean that both of them deal with places, but that time and space different from the present is called up while the poet, incited by the places before his eyes, retrospects the past and has a prospect of the future, for example, of the family he praises. Naturally, this should be connected with the praise of the family or the person to whom the poem, especially the country house poem, is dedicated, but this is not true to 'Upon Appleton House', a country house poem written by Andrew Marvell. The poet's attitude towards his patron is rather ambiguous in his retrospect of the past; he associates various kinds of places and incidents there in the estate with the civil war. In other words, he calls the ominous reality into the paradisiacal place, which changes the poem, although subtly, into something other than a country house poem. This poem proves that place relations between the place inside the estate and the place outside, not only between places inside the estate, can bring about a certain change to the poem, and the genre itself.
- 大阪府立大学の論文
- 2003-03-31
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