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1 Title ナイチンゲールに寄せるオードにみられるアイロニー Author(s) 高野, 吉一 Citation 歴史文化社会論講座紀要 (2011), 8: Issue Date URL Right Type Departmental Bulletin Paper Textversion publisher Kyoto University

2 Ode to a Nightingale, double meaning John Keats In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, ( - ) irony of fate Lot plot plot immortal forlorn (l.) Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam d to do, deceiving elf. (-)

3 Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: Do I wake or sleep? (-) Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Nightingale Keats Keats Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Nightingale Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam d to do, deceiving elf. (-) Benjamin Bailey I am sometimes so very sceptical as to think Poetry itself a mere Jack a lanthern to amuse whoever may chance to be struck with its brilliance (Letters,, ) amuse Ode to a Nightingale

4 I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, (-) Poesy Keats unmeek Ode on Indolence Love Ambition Poesy The last, whom I love more, the more of blame Is heap d upon her, maiden most unmeek, I knew to be my demon Poesy. ( Ode on Indolence -) Ode to a Nightingale Poesy But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. (-) The Faerie Queene Error Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand,

5 A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand: Whose loftie trees yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr: And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farr: Fair harbour that them seemes, so in they entred ar. (Book. Canto. Stanza ) Edmund Spenser(c.-) Ode to a Nightingale But here there is no light (l. ) Poesy In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, ( - ) plot

6 D.C. Muecke Romantic irony The author s presence of mind must now be a principal element in his work, alongside the equally necessary but blind driving force of enthusiasm or inspiration. (Muecke ) immortality immortality forest dim (l. ) tender Already with thee! tender is the night (l. ) -dy with thee with -dy with Ten- Keats To Autumn Keats Already with thee! tender is the night, () And still more, later flowers for the bees, To Autumn ) tender wine stream Thou art pouring forth thy soul abroadl. dissolve (l. )become a sod (l. ) silent form ( Ode on a Grecian Urn, l. ) Grecian Urn

7 Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call d him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. (-) easeful [i:] half call d more art [ :] [ :] names rhyme take die thou [ei], [ai], [au] While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad Pouring forth [ :] soul [ou] abroad [ :] [ :] [ou]

8 iambic trimeter In such an ecstasy! mortal immortal Bird Ruth William Shakespeare(-) William Wordsworth(-) Emperor and clown (l. ) Kenneth Muir Keats Tom Tom King Lear - In the third stanza his account of the miseries of life: Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies is also coloured by thoughts of Tom; and a link between Tom s illness and the nightingale is to be found in Keats s copy of Shakespeare. He read King Lear on October, a few weeks before Tom died, and he underlined the words poor Tom in Edger s sentence: The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of the Nightingale. Now, seven months later, when he heard an actual nightingale, Keats was haunted by Tom s ghost. Muir Keats

9 Keats Kenneth Muir King Lear King Lear Keats Hyperion Ode to a Nightingale Fast fading violets (l. ) The coming musk-rose (l. ) Nature s law (Hyperion. ) Cleanth Brooks The world of nature is a world of cyclic change (the seasonable month, the coming maskrose ) and consequently can seem fresh and immortal, like the bird whose song seems to be its spirit. (Stillinger ) Immortal Bird (l. )...magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. (-) immortal Forlorn Tom immortality

10 immortality My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ( - ) ache heart ache ache Run-on line drowsy drunk dull drain [d] [dr] endstopped Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,

11 That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. ( -) Some melodious plot plot lot plot Thy happy lot cosmic irony irony of fate In some melodious plot / Of beechen green, and shadows numberless thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees Singest of summer in full-throated ease [s] [ ] full-throated ease [ou] [i:] O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool d a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Proven al song, and sunburnt mirth!

12 O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; (-) a draught of vintage! that hath been / Cool d a long age in the deepdelved earth Tasting of Flora and the country green, / Dance, and Proven al song, and sunburnt mirth! a beaker full of the warm South, / Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, / With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, / And purple-stained mouth; end-stopped the true, the blushful Hippocrene With beaded babbles winking at the brim [b] alliterate [b] Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. (-)

13 end-stopped where here Immortal Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! (-) John Barnard the image of a church-bell tolling for a funeral continues the religious imagery of high requiem (l.) and is continued by plaintive anthem in l.. ( ) high requiem plaintive anthem forlorn forlorn Hyperion Knowledge enormous (Hyperion.. )

14 Soon wild commotions shook him, and made flush All the immortal fairness of his limbs; Most like the struggle at the gate of death; Or liker still to one who should take leave Of pale immortal death, and with a pang As hot as death s is chill, with fierce convulse Die into life: so young Apollo anguish d; (. - ) Die into life sole self fancy deceiving elf Ode to a Nightingale Cleanth Brooks Indeed, the general theme of the poem may be described as that of the following paradox: the world of the imagination offers a release from the painful world of actuality, yet at the same time it renders the world of actuality more painful by contrast. (Brooks ) Ode to a Nightingale fancy

15 melodious plot (l. ) Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam d to do, deceiving elf. (-) Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: Do I wake or sleep? (-) Keats I am sometimes so very sceptical as to think Poetry itself a mere Jack a lanthern to amuse whoever may chance to be struck with its brilliance As Tradesmen say every thing is worth what it will fetch, so probably every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer being in itself a nothing Ethereal thing may at least be thus real, divided under three heads Things real things semireal and no things Things real such as existences of Sun Moon Stars and passages of Shakespeare Things semireal such as Love, the Clouds c which require a greeting of the Spirit to make them wholly exist and Nothings which are made Great and dignified by an ardent pursuit Which by the by stamps the burgundy mark on the bottles of our Minds, insomuch as they are able to consec[r]ate whate er they look upon (Letters,, -)

16 Keats immortal Poetry no things Keats no things Keats real reality Keats That if Poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. Letters,, - Keats immortal Ode to a Nightingale immortality mortal Ode to a Nightingale

17 Jack Stillinger (ed.), John Keats: Complete Poems (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, ), p.. Keats D. C. Muecke Irony (Fakenham: Methuen Co Ltd, ) Romantic Irony Ironic literature, in this sense of irony, is literature in which there is a constant dialectic interplay of objectivity and subjectivity, freedom and necessity, the appearance of life and the reality of art, the author immanent in every part of his work as its creative vivifying principle and transcending his work as its objective presenter. (p. ) Hyder Edward Rollins (ed.), The Letters of John Keats, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, ). Keats demon Carol V. Kaske (ed.), The Faerie Queene, Book One. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, ), p.. H.W. Garrod Keats Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper Ruth Keats. (London: Oxford University Press, ), p.. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan (ed.) The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. (London: Thomson Learning, ), p.. John Barnard (ed.) John Keats: Complete Poems. (London: Penguin Books, ), p.. ll.- eidos Brooks, Cleanth. Modern Poetry and the Tradition. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,. Garrod, H.W. Keats. London: Oxford University Press,. Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,.. The Letters of John Keats, Edited by Hyder Edward Rollins. vols.. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,.. John Keats: The Complete Poems. Edited by John Barnard. London: Penguin Books,. Muecke, D. C. Irony. Fakenham: Methuen Co Ltd,. Muir, Kenneth, ed. John Keats: A Reassessment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,. Shakespeare, William. The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Edited by Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan. London: Thomson Learning,. Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book One. Edited by Carol V. Kaske. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc,. Stillinger, Jack, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Keats s Odes. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs,.

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Title ナイチンゲールに寄せるオード にみられるアイロニー Author(s) 高野, 吉一 Citation 歴史文化社会論講座紀要 (2011), 8: Issue Date URL Rig

Title ナイチンゲールに寄せるオードにみられるアイロニー Author(s) 高野, 吉一 Citation 歴史文化社会論講座紀要 (2011), 8: Issue Date URL Rig