【ロマン派詩人・キーツの皮肉】「Modern Love」（John Keats / 1848）／The Irony of the Romantic Poet Keats — “Modern Love” (John Keats / 1848)

 　AIによると、キーツは「19世紀初頭のイギリス・ロマン派を代表する詩人の一人」で、「政治的・社会的主題よりも、美、愛、感覚、死、はかなさ、想像力を濃密な言葉で描いた」らしい。

　そこで、へそ曲がりな小生は、彼の社会風刺的な詩を探してみたところ、「これかな？」と思える作品を見つけた。それが「Modern Love」。

　デイヴィッド・ボウイの同名曲に勝るとも劣らぬアイロニーが気に入り、リリックビデオを作ることにした。

　最後のビーバーに苦笑していただければ幸いです。

　「Modern Love」（日本語字幕版）

　According to AI, John Keats was “one of the major poets of early nineteenth-century English Romanticism” and was known for writing less about political and social themes than about “beauty, love, sensation, death, transience, and the imagination.”

　Being somewhat contrary by nature, I went looking for a more satirical side of Keats and came across a poem that made me think, “Could this be it?” That poem was “Modern Love.”

　I was immediately drawn to its irony, which, to my mind, is every bit as sharp as David Bowie’s song of the same title, and decided to make a lyric video for it.

　I hope the beaver at the end brings a wry smile to your face.

　“Modern Love” by John Keats