Keatsの徒歩旅行
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Walking started to become popular in late eighteenth century England, and this period is alluded to as an "Age of Pedestrianism." English Romanitc poets loved walking. Keats, like Wordsworth and Coleridge, enjoyed walking; in particular, his northern walking tour with Charles Brown in 1818 was a significant turning point in his poetic career in many regards. Keats composed five sonnets and some occasional verse while actually walking. In terms of quality and quantity, the verse is disappointing; however, many letters which he wrote to his brothers, sister, and friends are good travel literature. The letters contain images and phrases which reflect his deep emotion. These had to germinate for a while to become effective images and ideas in his mature poems of 1819. A typical example is "Hyperion." In fact, it is the product of the journey. Fingal's Cave in Scotland inspired him with the idea of the epic; the grandeur of the natural architecture was transferred to the epic grandeur. Besides, the wonders of nature revive as the picture of Hyperion's palace. The mist and the cloud in the northern mountain appear as the background for the Titans. Further, some images in "Ode to a Nightingale" come from the memories of the trip. The natural images are colored with his supernatural imagination and with religious overtone. Thus, though the impromptu poems are not successful, the ideas and images obtained during the trip were incubated in his mind and reborn as wonderful poetry a year later.
- 1999-01-30