心灵的轻音乐与重音乐——威廉·布莱克诗歌《婴儿的欢乐》与《婴儿的忧伤》之声效对比

Light and Heavy Music upon Souls——A Contrastive Analysis of Sound Effect in "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow"

英文诗歌是具有声音效果(音韵和节奏)的艺术。声效在汉英词典中的解释是由声音所制造的效果,指为增进某一场面之真实感、渲染气氛,而加于声带上的声音。诗歌的音乐性不仅寓于铿锵的节奏和优美的韵律之中,而且有的还直接表现在音乐形象的塑造上,诗与音乐浑然一体。本文以英国浪漫主义先驱威廉.布莱克的诗歌《婴儿的欢乐》和《婴儿的忧伤》为例,对比分析这两首诗中的不同韵式、音素分布、音节长短等等所产生的不同音乐效果是如何抒发诗人的感情,表达其诗歌主题的。

English poem is an art with musical effect （mainly by its rhymes and rhythms）. Sound effect, as what is explained in Chinese-English Dictionary, is the effect made by specific sound that is given by the vocal cord to enhance the authentic feeling of a certain occasion, adding to a particular atmosphere. The poetic musicality resides not only in sonorous rhythms and beautiful rhymes but also in the representation of a certain musical image. Music and poetry are a well-integrated art. Taking ＂Infant Joy＂ and ＂Infant Sorrow＂ written by William Blake as examples, this paper hereby aims to make a contrastive analysis of how different sound effects brought about by different rhyme schemes, phonemes distributions, word＇s syllable length in these two poems respectively affect the feeling the poet intended to express and the very themes these two poems were designed to emphasize.