昨年度から期待をされていた講演会
がついに開催。
講演者は南澤滋文さん。
宇治田学は特に英語抒情詩についての高い感受性を有することで知られる。
南澤滋文さんはそれらを詳細に解き明かした。
下記は要旨。
一歩
1行がただ1つの詩脚から成るもの。
- Thus I
- Passe by,
- And die:
- As one,
- Unknown,
二歩
1行が2つの詩脚から成るもの。
- Take her up // tenderly,
- Lift her with // care,
- Fashioned so // slenderly,
- Young and so // fair.
三歩
1行が3つの詩脚から成るもの。
- When here // the spring // we see,
- Fresh green // upon // the tree.
七歩
1行が7つの詩脚から成るもので、通常14か21の音節を持つ。
- 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreathe,
- All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath.
- O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been,
- Or weep as I could once have wept o'er many a vanish'd scene,-
- As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
- So midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me!
- - バイロン『Youth and Age』
八歩
強弱八歩格。
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
- Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
強弱弱八歩格。
- Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight,
- The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger than dreams that fulfil us in sleep with delight;