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[영시평] THE PARADISE, FALL AND RESURRECTION IN LYCIDAS (영문)
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PAUL
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2021-11-27 18:51:59, 조회 : 1,016 |
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✝✝ THE PARADISE, FALL AND RESURRECTION IN LYCIDAS ✝✝
(The Christian theme of Redemption) (영문)
Lycidas is the pastoral elegy which John Milton wrote in 1637 for the purpose of expressing his deep sorrow at Edward King’s death who had been his fellow student at Cambridge University. This elegy emphasized the death and greatness of cruel nature so that inspires the pity of life before them.
Milton treated death as the themes of Lycidas, and took its sources from the Bible and Classical myth. Because Milton had grown in the background of Puritan faith his poems thoroughly included Christian idea. Also in the course of his life, we can find the order of Paradise, the Fall and Paradise Regained under the Christian idea, and in the process of his working-life we are able to catch enough the order of “On the Morning of Christian Nativity” (at the age of Cambridge), Paradise Lost“(1667) and Paradise Regained”(1671).
It also shows the order of the beginning in his peaceful life, the bitter experience of this blind and looking for the Paradise Regained with his open eye of mind. In Lycidas also, we can clearly find the process such as this.
In the third stanza of Lycidas, the poet spread out the pastoral Paradise in which two shepherds, John Milton and Edward King were peacefully keeping watch over the flocks.
But in the fourth stanza, the situation of this poem changes and pastoral Paradise is gone out, and then the world of the Fall is spread out. This is the which poet describes the waste world of mind having been struck by the death of his fellow-student, Edward King.
But in the eleventh stanza, in spite of the death of the King, he is consoled that he will rise and will be welcome by the saints in heaven. At last, in the twelfth stanza, Lycidas rose, and pasture was new. Namely he resurrected and Paradise was regained.
Thus John Milton mixed him and the King in Lycidas and spread out a bird’s eye looking at the view of the Christian conception of redemption so as to see the Paradise life of Lycidas, the Fall as his death and his resurrection in one eye.
The main themes of the Bible are glory of God and the redemption for men. The themes of the Old Testament are Paradise of Eden, the Fall and Paradise Regained or blessed Canaanite of Israel, his Diaspora and return to his country.
On the other hand, the main theme of New Testament are the birth of Jesus Christ, his death and his resurrection.
According to this Christian conception, John Milton analyzed and understand Paradise and laments over the Fall, and then proclaims the hope of resurrection.
In Christianity, the protagonist of salvation is Jesus Christ, through his birth, death and resurrection, he accomplished the salvation of men. In \ Lycidas,\ shepherd Lycidas is the symbol of Jesus Christ, and his death and raise suggest Christ’s death and resurrection, and these are connected with those of men.
As a result, John Milton mixed past, present and future into his poetry, and created the New Heaven and New Earth transcending time and space. It is the world of “Geschichte” and of accomplishment of redemption. 💟💟💟
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