バイロンの『マゼッパ』 : その折衷性（'a mule and　a mongrel'）について

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According to nineteenth century periodical, Literary Gazette, Byron's Mazeppa was “written in a humour between grace and gay, neither tragic nor comic, a mule and mongrel between Beppo and the Bride of Abydos.” Certainly the dual mode of the poem as expressed here is its characteristic, but the existence of comic elements is not dominantly strong enough to decide the general tenor of the poem. Rather, the poem has a more serious intention of treating such themes as fortune, war and freedom. Mazeppa's stance to these ideas tends to be ambivalent and eclectic respectively. Hance his treatment of these themes cam be said to be metaphorically ‘a mule and mongrel’, to borrow the wording used in the quotation above, in that Mazeppa often takes contradictory attitudes to these themes.
2010-01-00