抄録
Hanna (1995) proposes a new definition of Middle English alliterative poetry, and reclassifies it somewhat radically, based not mainly on alliteration itself but on the concepts of 'heteromorphic' and 'homomorphic' rhythms by McIntosh (1982). As a result, a number of poems, which have been regarded as peripheral and little studied, are newly recognized as central alliterative poems. The aim of this article is to investigate the uses of (1) the poetic synonyms for 'man', (2) the phrases with the syntactic structure of Adj.-est + Prep. + (Det.) + Noun and (3) without + Noun phrases, in the newly-recognized 'alliterative' poems by Hanna (1995), in order to reveal some stylistic relationships among 'classical corpus' of ME alliterative poetry, stanzaic alliterative poems and the newly-recognized 'alliterative' poems. The investigation shows the following results. (1) The poetic synonyms for 'man' are only used sporadically in the newly-recognized 'alliterative' poems except alliterative prophecies, in which a typical formula, Noun for 'man' + Prep. + (Det.) + Noun of place, also occurs. (2) The phrases with the syntactic structure of Adj.-est + Prep. + (Det.) + Noun are also used sporadically in these poems. (3) Without + Noun phrases, typical rhyming phrases used in 'homomorphic' rhymed poems in ME, are also used by the poets of these poems mainly in rhyming position with heteromorphic rhythms.
