“Lycidas”: The Pastoral Elegy as Same-Sex Epithalamium
作者： Bruce Boehrer
关键词: Elegy 、 Context (language use) 、 Consummation 、 Homosexuality 、 Poetry 、 Masculinity 、 Elegiac 、 Literature 、 History 、 Human sexuality
摘要: Milton’s “Lycidas” deploys a variety of matrimonial references—classical and Christian—within an elegiac context that simultaneously manifests anxiety over feminine sexuality. The result is poem whose erotic investments, coexisting as they do with general preference for masculine companionship, tend to settle into patterns same-sex attachment. These culminate in the “unexpressive nuptial song” poem’s conclusion, which figures spiritual consummation terms while implicitly positioning Lycidas role bride. (BB)
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