著者

奥田 喜八郎

出版者

奈良教育大学

雑誌

奈良教育大学紀要 人文・社会科学 (ISSN:05472393)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.1, pp.13-34, 1996-11

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This paper is intended to meet the need for fuller and simpler explanation of the method of enjoying reading English Poetry. As the title indicates, it is a primer for reader who wants to maintain and cultivate an active, critical mind, to become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of Robert Herrick's best poem. In so doing the author attempts to follow the tradition of Kazumi YANO and Kinji SHIMADA, that is to say, to produce a text-book that can also be read 'for pleasure as well as profit' by those who in their university days suffered those things which most of my own generation suffered. It is generally said that Robert Herrick stands situated in the middle between the Cavalier and Anglica poets. He is also a country parson in Devonshire. He writes well about the English country and its flowers. His love-songs are so sweet, as well. Especially, it is very interesting for him to mention 'death' so often, and so lightly in the religious poems in His Noble Number. The subject of this paper is attempted to appreciate the poem titled "Upon His Departure Hence" in great detail, with particular emphasis on symbols and imagery of 'grave' and 'cave' based upon the Holy Bible and so forth.