-20世紀 英國詩-
(1) Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) : "The Darkling Thrush"
"The Darkling Thrush"
1 I leant upon a coppice gate
2 When Frost was spectre-gray,
3 And Winter's dregs made desolate
4 The weakening eye of day.
5 The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
6 Like strings of broken lyres,
7 And all mankind that haunted nigh
8 Ha
. The Development of Buddhism
Buddhism evolved from the Indian philosophy of the 6th century BC with its concept of saṃsāra and karman. The saṃsāra (the Wheel of Birth and Death) is theeternal cycle of rebirth of every living creature. Karman (act) describes all that someone chose to do whether it is deeds, words or thoughts and is followed by a distinct reaction. Karman
1연
If but some vengeful god would call to me /...and laugh: "Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, /That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"
2연
Then would I bear it, clench myself, anddie, /
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I /
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.
“You ask how it feels to be a deceived husband. Just Heavens, I do not know. It feels just nothing at all. It is not Hell, certainly it is not necessarily Heaven. […] But what were they? The just? The unjust? God knows! I think that the pair of them were only poor wretches, creeping over this earth in the shadow of an eternal wrath...” 옳고 그름에 대한 가치판단의 어려움
Courtly love and holy love seek
ideal thing
- ‘courtly love’ , unable love between
knights and women that they loved.
- the process to find holy grail
= the knight’s sacred action.
- two legends chase cardboard thing ,
not practical.
< Lancelot of the Lake>
Lancelot, the knight
After fail to find Holy Grail
Betrayal