シエリの神祕思想の特質
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Shelley seems to have inherited not only the spirit of revolution but that of mystical universality as well. In this essay the subject is limited to the characteristics of Shelley's mysticism. Shelley was gifted with depth of spiritual insight and his poems were permeated by his idealism. For Shelley the earthly reality is something deceitful, because the earthly world is subjected to changes. The pure, simple from is again and again obscured and overgrown by casual chance and superfluous things on the earth. According to Shelley, the pure, clear and constant things atre not to be found on the earth, but in a higher, spiritual realm, the conception of which reveals the influence of Plato. In Shelley's poems the pure eternal from and idea are emphasized. The world of men recedes into the background in the face of nature, just as the concrete, individual, and spiritual recede in the face of the general, ideal and universal. If, however, the concrete comes forward, it is mostly used in a symbolic or allegorical meaning. The ideal and universal, for which the poet was searching, soars from the earth away into a higher realm. There the ideal and universal powers are incarnated in their pure form. In this higher realm is to be found the essence of nature, which stands behind the multiform and changeable phenomena of nature. In Shelley's poem we perceive a greater freedom and flexibility, compared with the shape of the mythological figures of ancient times. Shelley's mystical world takes form not from the ancient mythology of concrete human figures but from superhuman powers, for instance, light, sound and wind. The concreat figures and outline, therefore, as we see, are dissolved in air.
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