拜倫在《唐‧璜》中對人類表述的先見之明

Don Juan: Byron’s Vision of Humankind

英國詩人拜倫通過《唐‧璜》表述他真實情懷及浪漫詩人的理想。享譽國際的自由詩人兼行動主義者的拜倫，藉由這首獨特的創作長詩表達他對人類的洞見。在《唐‧璜》中，他道出人透過痛苦的經驗尋獲真理。拜倫無奈的承認，這是個充滿種種罪惡、偽善、荒謬的不完美世界。儘管人的有限，卻不斷在險惡的環境中奮鬥；人的價值在於擁有一種高貴的情操，推動人繼續追求知識、自由、希望以及真、善、美。

Lord Byron expresses his genuine feelings and romantic aspiration through Don Juan. Being honored as a poet of liberty and a man of action, Byron intends to treat the unique invention as a medium for uttering his vision of humankind. In Don Juan, he points out that the truth is found by means of man’spainfulexperience. Byron reluctantly admits that this is an imperfect world filled with all sorts of vices, hypocrisies, and absurdities. Mankind’s eternal value lies in a very noble spirit which motivates him to keep on pursuing knowledge, freedom, hope, truth, goodness, as well as beauty, and struggling with adverse circumstances, in spite of his limitations.