...This is probably why many excellent pastorals, including Milton's pastoral lament Lycidas, contain strong satire. Also, when pastoral poets could not bear the pastoral fictional conventions that the countryside is peaceful and beautiful, and the shepherd is innocent and happy, they sometimes wrote counter-pastorals that emphasize the exhaustion of rural areas and the hardships of the shepherd's life. Pastorals are literature about shepherds and sung in the voice of shepherds, but they are written by intellectuals such as court poets. *Some of the terminology that refers to "counter pastoral" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ミルトンの牧歌哀歌《リシダス》をはじめ,いくつものすぐれた牧歌が,強い風刺性を内包しているのは,このせいであろう。また牧歌詩人が,田園は平和で美しく,羊飼いは無垢で幸福だというような,牧歌的虚構の約束事に耐えきれぬとき,むしろ農村の疲弊とか,羊飼いの暮しのつらさを強調する〈反牧歌(カウンター・パストラルcounter‐pastoral)〉が書かれることもあった。 牧歌は羊飼いについて,羊飼いの声で歌われる文学だが,それを書くのは宮廷詩人をはじめとする知識人である。… ※「カウンター・パストラル」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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