Epipsychidion

…Queen Mab (1813) is an allegorical poem of social reform, and its meaning continues in The Revolt of Islam (1818), and reaches its climax in Prometheus Unbound (1820), which rebels against authority and liberates humanity through love, and then in Cenci (1819), which is a tragedy in which the protagonist deforms and fights against his father's tyranny. On the other hand, as a work pursuing ideal beauty, Alastor (1816) seeks the existence of love and fails, but in Epipsychidion (1821), it is sublimated into a philosophical poem in which the vision of love and the spirit and body are united. Other works include the elegant and delicate lyric short poem The Song of the Skylark, which also appears in Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura, and The Song of the West Wind, which was the model for Shimazaki Toson's Song of the Autumn Wind, and the closing line of the poem, "If winter comes, spring is not far away," is famous.

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…《マブ女王》(1813)は社会改革の寓意詩で，その趣旨は《イスラムの反乱》(1818)につづき，さらに権力に逆らって愛で人類を解放する《プロミーシュース解縛》(1820)で頂点になり，デフォルメして父の暴虐とたたかう《チェンチ》(1819)の悲劇になる。一方，理想美追求の作品として，《アラスター》(1816)は〈愛する存在〉を模索して失敗するが，《エピサイキディオン》(1821)では，愛のビジョンと霊肉が合一する哲学詩に昇華している。このほか華麗で繊細な抒情短詩，夏目漱石の《草枕》にも出てくる〈雲雀の歌〉，島崎藤村の〈秋風の歌〉のモデル〈西風の歌〉があり，その結びの一句〈冬来りなば春遠からじ〉は有名である。…

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