Theodore Roethke

Japanese: レトキ - れとき（英語表記）Theodore Roethke

1908‐63
American poet. Born in Michigan in the Midwest. The son of German immigrants, he spent his childhood at the flower orchard his father ran, which had a decisive influence on him. His first collection of poems, Open House (1941), already contained works about people who live among plants. In his second collection, Lost Son (1948), the protagonist, who has lost his sense of self and experienced a mental crisis, gradually regains his sense of self through memories of various experiences he had with his father in the greenhouse. Written in fresh, colloquial free verse, this collection breathed new life into the formulaic American poetry that had developed after World War II.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1908‐63
アメリカの詩人。中西部ミシガン州の出身。ドイツ系の移民の子として生まれ，父親が経営していた花の栽培園で過ごした少年時代は彼に決定的な影響を与えた。第1詩集《オープン･ハウス》(1941)でも，すでに植物とともに生活する人たちを扱った作品が含まれている。第2詩集《迷える息子》(1948)では，自己を喪失して精神的危機を味わった主人公が，父親との温室でのさまざまな体験の記憶を通じて，しだいに自己を回復する過程が，新鮮な口語調の自由詩で書かれており，第2次大戦後の形式化したアメリカ詩に生命を吹きこんだ。

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