Lament for my loved one - Lament for my loved one

Japanese: わがひとに与ふる哀歌 - わがひとにあたうるあいか

This is Ito Shizuo's first collection of poems. Published by Cogito Publishing in 1935. It contains 27 poems, including "Song of the Wilderness," "Elegy for My Love," and "Memories of the Sea of Ariake." It is a mix of works that Ito himself calls "quiet satirical poems," inspired by the satirical spirit of Erich Kästner and the metaphorical expressions of the Kokinshu, and hard, fascinating works that express solitary romantic feelings in a literary context, beautifully expressing the pride and pain of youth that cannot help but be distorted in the suffocating circumstances of the times. Hagiwara Sakutaro praised Ito as "a true and essential lyric poet who truly possesses 'songs of the heart,'" and also described the poems as "poems of a wounded romantic school" and "distorted poems of Shimazaki Toson."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

伊東静雄の第1詩集。1935年コギト発行所刊。《曠野の歌》《わがひとに与ふる哀歌》《有明海の思ひ出》など27編を収録する。ケストナーの諷刺精神や《古今集》の譬喩（ひゆ）表現に学び自ら〈静かなクセニエ(諷刺詩)〉と名づける作品と，孤高な浪漫的心情を文語脈で表現した硬質で魅惑的な作品が交錯して配置され，閉塞した時代状況の中で屈折せざるをえない青春の誇りと苦痛とがみごとに表現されている。萩原朔太郎は〈真に“心の歌”を持ってるところの真の本質的な抒情詩人〉と絶賛し，また〈傷ついた浪漫派の詩〉〈歪められた島崎藤村〉の歌と評した。

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