“把一切轻浮的欢乐关在城外”——对穆旦1976年诗歌创作的读解

Keeping Every Frivolous Joy Away from my Castle——An interpretation of MuDan′s poetic creation in 1976

1976年这一年对于穆旦充满了特殊的意义,作为一个身处“文革”漩涡中的历史见证人,他不仅是苦难时代依然保持诘问的诗人,同时还担当了一个孤独的寓言家的角色。而诗人身份向翻译家身份的转变则体现了穆旦于时代漩流中以一个人文科学工作者的姿态重新抵抗压制,在万马齐喑中寻找新的表达途径的努力。在这一年的诗歌里充满了他对整个时代所作的思想和人格的双重批判,也显示出绚烂与沧桑之后复归于平静从容的个人风格,表现了一个智者在目睹了声势浩大的造神运动之后的苦涩、深沉与洞察力。

As a witness of the whirlpool of the Cultural Revolution(1966-1976),a questioning poet in an era of tribulation,Mu Dan is not only a poet but also a lonely allegorist.The conversion from a poet to a translator embodies Mu Dan′s efforts to seek new ways of resistance under those suffocating circumstances.His poems created in 1976 are full of his criticism on the thinking and the personality of the self-deceptive time.These poems also demonstrate calm style after the poet experienced both brilliance and suffe...