岐阜市立女子短期大学研究紀要 第52輯（平成15年3月）
抄録
―ブレイクの『ミルトン』について―
（14）
Transcending Satan-Self in Blake’s Milton (14)
| 川 崎 則 子 |
| Noriko Kawasaki |
Abstract
This paper discusses one passage from William Blake’s Milton, plate 17[19], lines 31-36. In this passage, Los and Enitharmon are both astonished by the visitation of the resurrected Milton to their mundane world. Since Los and Enitharmon are the pair created by Blake’s imagination to represent the time phase of eternal Urthona, their first encounter with Milton carries a nuance of incompletion or mistake. They mistake Milton for the ego-centered Satan whereas he actually has come to overcome Satan’s failure. Though their mistake concerning their recognition is the same, their reactions to it are contrastive: Los is terrified; Enitharmon who is Satanic, is overjoyed. Their recognition is contaminated by Urizen’s derogated ego-centered reasoning. They project their own failure of egocentric reasoning on Milton’s personality. Satan seems to be Blake’s favorite theme of his visual work at this period of composing Milton. “Fiber” and “polyp” also play an important role in both his visual and verbal expression and can be impressively exemplified in the plate 17[19].