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"The Song of the Stormy Petrel" ((ロシア語:Песня о Буревестнике)) is a short piece of revolutionary literature written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1901. Written in a variation of unrhymed trochaic tetrameter with occasional Pyrrhic substitutions, it is considered poetry. ==History== In 1901, no one could criticise the Tsar directly and hope to escape unhappy fate. "Aesopian language" of a fable, which had been developed into a form of art by earlier writers such as Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, was not infrequently used by the critics of the regime. Maxim Gorky wrote "The Song of the Storm Petrel" in March 1901 in Nizhny Novgorod. It is believed that originally the text was part of a larger piece, called "Spring Melodies" (Весенние мелодии) and subtitled "Fantasy" (Фантазия). In this "fantasy", the author overhears a conversation of birds outside his window on a late-winter day: a crow, a raven, and a bullfinch representing the monarchist establishment; sparrows, "lesser people"; and anti-establishment siskins (чижики). As the birds discussing the approach of the spring, it is one of the siskins who sings to his comrades "the Song of the Stormy Petrel, which he had overheard somewhere", which appears as the "fantasy's" finale.〔 In the "Song", the action takes place on an ocean coast, far from the streets of a central Russian town; the language calling for revolution is coded—the proud stormy petrel, unafraid of the storm (that is, revolution), as all other birds cower. The publication of this parody of the Russian society was disallowed by the censors; however, apparently because of a censor's mistake, the siskin's "Song" was allowed to be published as a separate piece.〔 The entire "fantasy" was published in Berlin in 1902.〔 "Весенние мелодии (Фантазия)" (Spring Melodies. (Fantasy)) in: 〕 The "Song" was first published in the ''Zhizn'' magazine in April 1901.〔"(Maxim Gorky: The Song of the Stormy Petrel )" (in Russian).〕 Gorky was arrested for publishing "The Song", but released shortly thereafter. The poem was later referred to as "the battle anthem of the revolution",〔"(A Legend Exhumed )", a review of Dan Levin's book ''Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky''. ''TIME''. June 25, 1965.〕 and the epithet ''Burevestnik Revolyutsii'' (The Storm Petrel of the Revolution) soon became attached to Gorky himself.〔 According to Nadezhda Krupskaya, "The Song" became one of Lenin's favorite works by Gorky.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Song of the Stormy Petrel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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