对立世界中的象征隐喻——威廉·布莱克笔下的羔羊意象研究

The Symbolic Metaphor within the Contrasting World: William Blake’s Lamb

威廉·布莱克的诗集《天真与经验之歌》一直是后人研读与批评的对象,其中不仅饱含着布莱克对人性的深入理解与刻画,更有其对宗教与哲学的深刻认识与剖析。本文从西方浪漫主义诗歌意象的象征隐喻出发,通过对《天真之歌》与《经验之歌》中反复出现的羔羊意象进行分析,探究布莱克是如何通过羔羊意象分析和评判人性与社会的。在布莱克笔下,羔羊这一意象不仅是天真与纯美世界的使者,更是布莱克深刻认识经验世界的媒介。

Critics have been interpreting William Blake’ s poetry collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience from various perspectives, through which Blake not only probes deeply into the inner side of human world but also the religious and philosophical issues.In this essay, via analysing the meanings of the recurrent lamb image in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience within the concerns regarding the "symbolic metaphor" in Western Romanticist poetry, the author intended to figure out how Blake uses the image of lamb as a vehicle to touch upon humanity and society.For Blake, the image of lamb acts as not only a messenger from the world of innocence and purity, but also a medium to understand the world of experience.