キーツの詩における喜びと痛みの関係 : oxymoronを中心として
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From the earliest days of his poetic career until the last days of Rome, Keats held an almost continuous insistence on the union of oppositions; light-shade, joy-pain, warm-cold, life-death paradoxes. His inner conflict between a dreamer and a humanist evoked in The Fall of Hyperion Moneta's severe denunciation of a dreamer for whom joy and pain were not distinct, while he showed his partial sympathy for Lamia, "foul dream" beyond Colvin's comprehension. "Siege of contraries", however hateful it seems to be, in a sense led him to form a poetic attitude, the Negative Capability, which, he envied, Shakespeare possessed so enormously. It is impossible to prove that pain is joy in the world of facts and reason, but the intuitive perception of poetic truth, as revealed in the Cave of Quietude of Endymion, makes out a state in which anything can be its own contrary, and joy beyond any happiness which can be found in the abyss of loneliness, fear, or sorrow. But young Keats could not settle himself in this state of supreme wisdom, he, like Endymion wandering though the underworld, is troubled on the region not "dark, nor light, but mingled up, a gleaming melancholy". This paradoxical situation of Keats explains the frequency of oxymorons and ambivalence in his poems, of which Murry, Wasser man, and Slote have already treated in part. The present writer want to trace here Keats' development through his poetic dilemma, his tendency to see joy and pain as one meaningful identity. This effect of oppositions and contrast, with every variety of light and shade, was in his early poems a rather casual curiosity on the surface level for the unusual arrangement of natural things and mental situations. But increasingly he became to use this contrast at the core of his poems and with some of narratives and the great Odes it developed into the most complicated structural contrast, intimately connected with his imaginative vision of life and nature. Indeed under the influences of Gothicism this element seems sometimes to be artificial, grotesque, and even macabre. But enduring patiently in a gleaming melancholy Keats strikes deep in his major works the subtle and exquisite note caught in this joy-pain mystery.
- 1963-11-30
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